ELEPHANT DAWN

dawn’s a grey elephant 

half-spoken ideas/black hippo of hovering concepts

never confessed.

dawn’s an giant mammal - tired.

one day/one lost whale dawn/the elephant 

will 

confess 

ALL.

ALL the thoughts/ALL possible thoughts

about

his hairy bulk/live birth/his dreams

and 

imagined memories.

ALL - like rays desperate unfocused - pale moths

flying torn and dusty

they

softly 

raid the TV sky.

CONFESS ELEPHANT 

I cry

CONFESS GRUMPY BEAR

CONFESS ALL

THIS DAWN!

still

silence desperate unfocused

as weak sun

slides as oil on wine.

it settles the 

last 

moths 

still/no confession

all

is

secret

and bland noon comes.