almost all elephant

If yesterday had not been grief poems day, I probably would have posted a poem about elephants. We went to see The Great Elephant Migration installation at Hermann Park, here in Houston, which was incredibly cool, and made me go on a little bit of a deep dive into poems about elephants. This is a little one—I seem to be posting a lot of short poems so far this year—and it's not even really about elephants, but I love it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

—Kay Ryan, "The Elephant In The Room." This poem may or may not have originally been published in 2005, but I got it from poetryisnotaluxury, and they got it from Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, edited by Amit Majmudar (Knopf, 2017). It's also possible that Kay Ryan has more than one poem with this title? Google is so fucking useless in the AI era. LET'S TALK ABOUT ELEPHANTS.