“My Elephant” by Christine Strevinsky

Bigger Than They Appearis a happy beast;
pansies and petunias
garland his ears,
butterflies perch
on his back.

He munches silver grass
and gossips with the zebras
who live in the next frame
right above my bed.

Christine Strevinsky
Bigger Than They Appear (2011)

 

Christine Strevinsky is Polish-born and has been a mail inserter and an English teacher and a writer. A Katrina refugee, she now resides in Kentucky.

 

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