Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant, Match

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.

Posted by Annmarie at 2/5/2010 1:07 AM
Categories: today's words, Contributor Series 4
Tags: boxing knockout Sarah Endo love
 

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