Maureen Owen
Phyllis Wat
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from the top of the escarpment   we saw the cinder cones of volcanoes now extinct

White adobe elephant sister     the city
's  western edge               in your marbling gait            Yellowfins
Bust from those alabaster shoulders     by the bay     morphing textualities
come thumping     thanks to everyone who voted for us    we are the herd
breaking with traditional tastes         a grid of variations     See we 
have become green with black bowtie  &        tap shoes      or bit-mapped 
blue        now we wear a basket        then
thick vermillion pigment             putty      
pink         or finger-painted  background         O Chocolate
Ungulate                   you are not     a bony girl!         

Owen

Elefancy the popular name of a pachydermous mammal with five toes and long proboscis terminating in a fingerlike lobe to see the elephant or to show the elephant means to see or show the notable sights as in those of low character Laurence Oliphant (var. Elephant) travel writer and mystic penned A Journey to Khatmandu also The Russian Shores of the Black Sea Wounded by assassins in Japan he much later settled in Haifa See also Heffalump Wat