Evolution

As the glaciers skid
across the equator
the elephants strew

the savannah like
broken radiators.


Those pioneering

pachydermd who tracked
errant genes, sloughed tusks, shrank
vast ears & legs, drink

crisply & slide on
tapered toenails to snort
ice gnats from their niche.

asking for it

sauntering down to the sea's
lip, she thrusts out her pelvis,
flaunts her body at the cold

wavels, shuffles nearer, nearer,
& then recoils quickly with
a coy smile.

The sea extends

a brutal paw & sweeps her
away.


Caw, the seagulls cry,
she was just asking for it

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