belonging Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/belonging/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:44:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 belonging Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/belonging/ 32 32 135387410 How You Belong in the World https://elephantsnever.com/how-you-belong-in-the-world/ https://elephantsnever.com/how-you-belong-in-the-world/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:30:36 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2233 by James Diaz You can find lacewings on warm nightstaking away what we don’t wantfeeding on aphid honeydewmicroscopic antlions clearing the fieldslike mommas with bad brainstossing babies into dumpstersby the freeway at night but I wonder, in our kingdom,who gets to decide that sort of thingwho among us is wantedand who just gets tossed to the bottomof the satchel even if Read More

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