heart Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/heart/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:17:30 +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 heart Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/heart/ 32 32 135387410 The Average Heart https://elephantsnever.com/the-average-heart/ https://elephantsnever.com/the-average-heart/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:17:15 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2571 by Tammy L. Breitweiser The average heart is the size of a fist in an adult. She steps nose to nose with the mirror and studies the charcoal, violet, and crimson mark across her left eye. It matches the size of his heart. What she sees are her pores large and gapping. She would have to pick up some treatment. Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/the-average-heart/feed/ 1 2571 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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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/how-you-belong-in-the-world/feed/ 0 2233 To the doe, rotting https://elephantsnever.com/to-the-doe-rotting/ https://elephantsnever.com/to-the-doe-rotting/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:30:42 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2160 by Tianna G. Hansen your ribs are bare on your chest cavitywhere I imagine your heart was homed is that what the vultures consumed first?the vital organ that once pumped blood  through your leaping body, long legs kickup in joy, in life. you must not have seen  that death machine hurtling toward youbefore it was too late, and you became  Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/to-the-doe-rotting/feed/ 0 2160 Eyes on the Sun https://elephantsnever.com/eyes-on-the-sun/ https://elephantsnever.com/eyes-on-the-sun/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:45:40 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2066 by Rickey Rivers Jr. When you saw me in the skyI thought you’d shoot me downbut you only watched me fly. I flew from here to therewith wings from dreams,the wind in my hair. Eyes on the sun,I cut through clouds,made you hopeyou could join this trip around this hip,around this world.Deny you not, eyes on the sun. You love Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/eyes-on-the-sun/feed/ 0 2066 Raw https://elephantsnever.com/raw/ https://elephantsnever.com/raw/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:45:00 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2059 by Monica Kagan I long for magic in my life…Does that sound silly? I long for wings and wandsInstead of claws and sores. Flesh strips, flayedVultures lay bareA raw heart– Rended Shrapnel shreds sisters, mother, fatherA familial holocaustA bone tableau Sylvia, Ingrid and VirginiaWeave their wounds into wordsSpiraling down a well I long for wings and wandsInstead of claws and Read More

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