waves Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/waves/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:15:33 +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 waves Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/waves/ 32 32 135387410 Lake Nights https://elephantsnever.com/lake-nights/ https://elephantsnever.com/lake-nights/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:15:19 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2500 by Ryan Norman Moonlight laps the shoreline astiny-surfed feet dance on the pebblesin the stillness of night.Soft crashes of water on stone orchestratea ceremonious march toward sirens’soft sonnets—vows of forevertogether in the depths of the shallowglittered lake. His steps sink in the man-sown sandcovering the beach of dirt and stone hisheel toe, heel toe slidingone after the other—Soles pound to Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/lake-nights/feed/ 0 2500 Sea gods self-soothe https://elephantsnever.com/sea-gods-self-soothe/ https://elephantsnever.com/sea-gods-self-soothe/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:45:00 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2276 by Ankh Spice Tangaroa’s belly flattens, swellsinto the bright blade. Light honed by a creeping moonis the sharpest of all light, slipped glass ruptures him – quickening mercurybeads through cold ink. At his edges, silvered waves break, and breakagain – this is the nature of waves – but to shush, shush yourself calm, knowingthe shattering will go on until even Read More

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