15 things elephants never neglect: Their glutes on leg day To moisturize their skin during the dry season Precious pets To inform clients in writing about potential conflicts of interest before engaging new business (lawyer joke, sorry!) Their reading To respond to followers (although we might need work on, um, all those other things) To attend to friends and family Read More
Tag: pachyderms
Elephants Never Neglect, Reading
We present these trunk-to-tail pachyderms reading in gratitude for Neglect by Sam Rose. Check out this sample, in case we’ve not yet convinced you to read the full poem: tail to tail, wrapping their heads around each other’s murmurings, they catch the tail end of every tale told end to end like elephant strings – Neglect by Sam Rose And stay Read More
We present these trunk-to-tail pachyderms reading in gratitude for Neglect by Sam Rose. Check out this sample, in case we’ve not yet convinced you to read the full poem:
tail to tail, wrapping their heads
around each other’s murmurings,
they catch the tail end of every tale told
end to end like elephant strings – Neglect by Sam Rose
And stay tuned for Things Elephants Never Neglect, coming soon.
Neglect
by Sam Rose Wrapping trunks around tails, calves follow their mothers calf to calf, toe to toe keeping up or gently towed tail to tail, wrapping their heads around each other’s murmurings, they catch the tail end of every tale told end to end like elephant strings tales unfold, friend to friend an elephant has every intent to listen because Read More
Elephants Never Infest, Louse
“Well, the bad news is that you’ve definitely got a Pediculus pachydermis – elephant louse.” “Yuck, totally gross, like it has some weird tentacle thing hanging off the front!” “Yes, you’ve found its trunk. On the plus side, once we remove the louse, you shouldn’t get a recurrence. Elephants never infest.” Don’t forget to read “For the Love of Lice” Read More
“Well, the bad news is that you’ve definitely got a Pediculus pachydermis – elephant louse.”
“Yuck, totally gross, like it has some weird tentacle thing hanging off the front!”
“Yes, you’ve found its trunk. On the plus side, once we remove the louse, you shouldn’t get a recurrence. Elephants never infest.”
Don’t forget to read “For the Love of Lice” by Amy Alexander, a story about facing life’s problems – great and small – as a family.
And check out “Leaving for College” by Kim Luxoro, a parent’s letter to her child about things to never forget.
Regret
“No!” Phelaine bellowed, crashing a gray fist down onto the control panel. “The electromagnetic radiation’s fried the jump circuits.” She gestured at the red-flashing screen with her trunk. “We can take off, but we’ll never outrun that thing without jumping!” She trumpeted, a brash, purposeless sound. Then her massive head slumped forward. Above, “that thing” roiled across the monitors. From Read More
Prevent
The matriarch leads her family along the path. Wet season has given way to dry, as she remembered it would, and they march north. She recalls a place of grass and shallow pools, through the jungles, over the hills, that way. So she walks in front, and the herd follows. To navigate, the matriarch does not imagine what might lie Read More
Conquering Raven
We present this conquering raven in gratitude for sometimes ravens conquer wolves by Linda M. Crate. Check out this sample, in case we’ve not yet convinced you to read the full poem: tears were my only friends some nights as i hugged my pillow tight for comfort as a lonely elephant holding her tail – sometimes ravens conquer wolves, by Read More
We present this conquering raven in gratitude for sometimes ravens conquer wolves by Linda M. Crate. Check out this sample, in case we’ve not yet convinced you to read the full poem:
tears were my only friends
some nights as i hugged my pillow
tight for comfort
as a lonely elephant holding her tail – sometimes ravens conquer wolves, by Linda M. Crate
Elefante Azul
And now, straight from his North American tour, we introduce the luchador El Elefante Azul. He has adopted the costume of his wrestling hero and brings a message: Submit to Elephants Never! Until July 31st we seek submissions of flash fiction, art, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews, or articles for August and September publication. Pachyderms not required, and we offer prompts Read More
Quit
Insanity is performing the same action over and over again, yet expecting a different outcome. Or something like that. I don’t care which famous intellect said that originally. Narrators and news anchors quote it all the time on TV to explain a character who’s obsessed or stuck in a hopeless rut. The quote, however, ignores a simple caveat: It’s really Read More
Happy Father’s Day
Today I feel blessed to hug my son and to feel my daughter kick inside her mother’s womb. More, however, I feel blessed to have my father visiting, and to share my family with him. Not everyone can celebrate someone today, and I recognize that others might prefer to ignore the holiday. But on Father’s Day, take time to honor Read More