water Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/water/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:53:05 +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 water Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/water/ 32 32 135387410 The Pushcart Prize 2020 Nominations https://elephantsnever.com/the-pushcart-prize-2020-nominations/ https://elephantsnever.com/the-pushcart-prize-2020-nominations/#comments Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2331 With this week’s theme of “Endings,” we thought it appropriate to share our nominations for The Pushcart Prize 2020. For those unfamiliar, Pushcart Press produces a yearly anthology to showcase work from small book presses and little magazines. (Despite the pachyderm, we’re really a little fish, so you know.) Submissions for the anthology, however, must come from the online publication Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/the-pushcart-prize-2020-nominations/feed/ 1 2331 Washed Away https://elephantsnever.com/washed-away/ https://elephantsnever.com/washed-away/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2298 by Jeffrey Yamaguchi The small bottle of shampoo looks like glass, but turns out to be plastic. Its lighter weight and flimsy body throws off my fingers’ calibration — I lose my grip, and it falls to the floor in a whirlpool of soap suds and hot water disappearing down the drain. I don’t bother to bend over and pick Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/washed-away/feed/ 0 2298 what we can learn from water https://elephantsnever.com/what-we-can-learn-from-water/ https://elephantsnever.com/what-we-can-learn-from-water/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:00:24 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1868 by Mia Wright freeze.do not be afraid of rigidmoments in this lifefor we all harden.sometimesthere is not enough warmthto sustain us, but waterteaches leaves and riverseach winterto get still and let go:of undulating in riverbedsof painting the trees in brilliant greenof life as we know it.encased in the silenceof icy immobilityis a promise of something new.just wait.you will thawand live, Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/what-we-can-learn-from-water/feed/ 0 1868 Searching for Virginia https://elephantsnever.com/searching-for-virginia/ https://elephantsnever.com/searching-for-virginia/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:06:18 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1819 by Monica Kagan Slipping between the stones,I search for words clamped to rocks like leeches.One by one they fall and float away. Sagging into the water – she calls.Her voice penetrates my skin.Her tongue coils around my lungs. In the depths of my consciousness,thoughts splinter like a shattered vase.I lurch forward. Limbs numb,seaweed shrouds my body.Her echoes surround me. Searching Read More

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