Elephant

Stand a towering
four-squared acropolis
under a dark grey moon,
chopped off roughly
into a rounded rock.

Flap it with curtains
or possibly flags,
quivering out each side.

You will need a knotted,
fray-ended rope at the back,
and two spiked, albino
bamboo shoots,
flanking a sinuous
charcoal snake,
to front its intentions.

Make it big
to terrify,
and with
Old, Old
eyes, with a twinkle
of wisdom, or
Anger in them
and memory full
as the ocean.

Added @ 02:16 PM to Poetry category on January 26, 1993