At long
last: Contributor Series 4: no longer unsubtitled! Aspects of the
Elephant, how apt is that? This series, all 26 poems of it, will
explore the many aspects of the elephant, not in all its forms, for
that would require an infinite number of poems, but in various forms.
Some of our writers are describing the leathery ear, some the bristled
tail, some the doleful eye, some the sated stomach, but they are all
putting words to some part of the massive beast that is the human
emotion of love. Read them, enjoy them, let yourself be inspired by
them!
Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant
Match
By Sarah Endo
In the blue corner, we have
the welter of countless regulations:
Younger daughter gets brown hairbrush
with the lighter writing on it
Older daughter gets brown hairbrush
with the darker writing on it
Hair shall only be cut in the bathroom
And then only over a towel
But in the red corner, the weight
of countless steps, around and round
dancing, covering up, tying and untying gloves
I could weigh 500 pounds on the moon
and be beautiful to you
gentle cutman, splinter man
Ding ding
It’s a knockout
Sarah Endo’s poems (Just Born; Flora, A Garden-Variety Poem; CS 1: 9/11, The tv is on at work; He’s a keeper; CS 3:Resolution and Resolve, If I stop to pick up a leaf) appeared at vox poetica in 2009 and 2010.
