The topic that chose me this morning
was African Elephants.
Unbidden, they came
from depths unknown—
I did not plan to ponder Elephants,
and I certainly didn’t intend to write about them.
Yet here they are,
grand, gray, glorious,
trumpeting and trampling
through my thoughts,
pushing aside other ideas,
and knocking over the carefully arranged furniture—
generally making a mess of the place,
as one might expect of such titans
trapped within
the mind’s limited landscape.
So here I sit,
at the keyboard and computer,
an ethereal door
to the digital wilderness,
open wide,
inviting them to wander
into the vast wilds
whence they came.
Elephant Parade was published in Kindred Characters Literary Magazine (Lark & Owl Booksellers), Issue 2, Winter 2025
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