Remix of painting by Danny Lines

Cthulhu Hopscotch

by Alicia Hilton

Celestial flutes salute
the Black Goat of the Sky
as Yog-Sothoth awakens,
belching glowing miasma.
Particles churn and coalesce,
creating astral children
that hop across the sky.
Each newborn protostar
shivers in delight,
except one lone rebel
whose fiery scream shimmers
through the galaxy warning
that chaos is coming.
Yog-Sothoth’s pulsing tentacles
grasp the luminous miscreant.
The deity’s massive maw opens
and inhales its prodigy’s final shriek.
The goat’s barbed teeth gnash.
The dead star’s siblings weep.
Yog-Sothoth hurtles past asteroids
towards an alien spacecraft.
An extraterrestrial launches a nuke,
but the chaos game has just begun.
The goat swallows the missile
and licks its mighty teeth.

Remix of painting by Danny Lines