Oh! to find one's self,
residing, grey and chunky,
in the fat, hardened clay belly of
an Elephant-shaped container,
still, after a hundred years,
as a powdery quantity, unnamed,
too powerful a mystery to scatter
beneath the dormant purple Lilac tree
Oh! to find one's self,
falling, grey and chunky,
from the fat, hardened clay belly of
an Elephant-shaped container
moving, after a hundred years
as a powdery quantity, unnamed,
too powerful an asset to withhold
from the blooming scented Lilac tree...
lucy meskill
Container in shape of elephant>Iran> ca. 1900 Smithsonian
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