Morgan’s poem includes the line: "The sun’s ulna / cracks across the savanna, / and within, the spotted hyenas / gnaw chronology." This strongly suggests a literary origin where the skeleton is both temporal and anatomical. The "sun skeleton" is a powerful metaphor for solarity without warmth —a condition of climate collapse where the sun becomes a hostile architect. In many cli-fi narratives, the sun is not a gentle sustainer but a torturer (e.g., The Drowned World ’s intensified sun, Solaris ’s alien mind-star). Here, the sun is dead but its form remains, like a megalithic ruin.
It seems you're looking for a long-form paper or analysis on the phrase However, this is not a standard title of a known literary work, film, or academic text. It has the feel of a poetic, post-apocalyptic, or mythic phrase—perhaps from speculative fiction, a translated work, or an experimental piece. beasts in the sun skeleton
| Work | Parallel Element | |------|------------------| | The Road (Cormac McCarthy) | Post-apocalyptic gray sun, human-as-beast | | Pale Fire (Nabokov) | Skeletal sun imagery in the poem | | Annihilation (Vandermeer) | Mutant beasts in Area X’s luminous decay | | Dark Sun (1970s film) | Radioactive desert with beast-like scavengers | | The Skeleton of the Sun (poem by John Morgan) | Direct precursor (1987) | Morgan’s poem includes the line: "The sun’s ulna