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I stood there half broken and sated with tears
On burnt Ivory sticks made black over years
This was the site of just one battle
Slaughtered they were but unlike our cattle
...

Two hearts but only one hand

smiling and making us one
...

If I were to go around the world
I would go barefoot
Wander
Through blossoming meadows
...

she got on about three stops after I did
I was sure she was conversant in ballet
by the way she danced up the steps
and delicately deposited her passage
...

Faint away Ry Cooder
as the candle flame danced
reddish green and the wick crackled
...

The iciness of his smile
seeped like osmosis through the crevices
left on my face by the squint rooted
on fires of a loud and angry sun.
...

Here we are
Just the two of us together
Taking this crazy chance
To be all alone
...

High noon sun would soon turn
Her petite, ruddy face into one freckle
She rubbed the juice from a fresh lime
Across her brow so the bangs might bleach
...

9.

Since it was Sunday in late December
the sun perched softly behind a dark
swirl - and the distant dust
turned the last ray from red to pink
...

Some days you go looking for ocean
And what you find is gun smoke
And silver rain
Some days you go looking for sun
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I saw her sitting alone
At a corner table
Of a poorly lit inn
...

In aquamarine ran off my warmth traversing
mild meadows with swallows of ash
past the pink sunset
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Your hand in mine

Made the sun want to shine
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If I could see your heart smile once again
Colors would return
to my life in pen
Sanction my karma as patina
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A symphony usher named Brute
Was charging each man with no suit
He must have been witty
To have duped Maestro Smitty
...

Stung,
twice,
not to stride
upon the scorpion
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White Gold - Kenya 1996

I stood there half broken and sated with tears
On burnt Ivory sticks made black over years
This was the site of just one battle
Slaughtered they were but unlike our cattle

Nairobi was said to have stunted the trade
What an awful spot this picture had made
Where the proboscides were herded
And all ultimately murdered

They screamed as they bled
Each driven nails in its head
Their faces scythed to pieces
Tusks torn out and it in no way ceases

CITES was created to protect the creature
Initially winning was its popular feature
Over one million strong and starting to increase
Then the institution malformed to keeping international peace

China was conferred a thousand tons of this gold
Greed is the reason - just now we are told?
Here we sit and greater moves the poaching
Little we knew that the governments were coaching

The African genus is known by its ears
The continent it forms for thousands of years
From the Rock of Gibraltar to the cape of all fears
The generally docile beasts are truly our dears

A variety of feelings including grief
Elephants think much as we I can brief
They appreciate art and equally all mothering
And the Ivory War has become all but smothering

Compassion and self awareness they feel
Humans they aren't but what they think is real

My God lets wake up.

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