Poetry Is Useless



GREY MOTHS


oh, elephant
you there, pachyderm!
show me your ears
you old lion you!

this I shouted in my dream
across the whispering savannah plain
drunk in the African evening sun

& the elephant gently opened his huge fan ears
edges fluttering as if delicate wings
of grey moths

he stood still fluttering
then the elephant fell down into the golden grass
& melted at my feet

an invisible sound rushed up behind

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