MAYDAY

As You Learn of Elk, Elk Learn of You
by Laurinda Lind

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This poem was nominated for The Best of the Net.

Elk
Image by Kristendawn from Pixabay

Elkhips leaning any way they want

since up to the day of discovery,

 

their word is pivot. There’s a reason 

bones are like books, and why

 

you breathe your air and live in them. 

Or elk stomach as a church

where charms help once blood ties

 

to blood and genes go to ground. Elk 

as a barehearted ghost: a season 

 

never spending the sky in 

a way you were led to expect.

LAURINDA LIND quarantines in New York’s North Country. Some publications/ acceptances are in CALAMITY, Déraciné, E-ratio, Oxidant | Engine, and Spillway; also in anthologies What I Hear When Not Listening: Best of The Poetry Shack & Fiction, Vol. I (Sonic Boom), and Civilization in Crisis (FootHills Publishing). She is a Best of the Net nominee.

Filed Under: Poetry

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