The Elephants

Laura Elrick is a poet, essayist, educator, and performance writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Previous works include Propagation (Kenning Editions, 2012), Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School, 2005), and Skincerity (Krupskaya Books, 2003), as well as the trans-media performances Stalk (2008) and Blocks Away (2010). She is Associate Professor of Writing at Pratt Institute in New York.

from "Diagram (III)"

Or it was standing before a massive pond, got landscaped.
Up for billowing into bloom from cushions of green feathers – win.
Approach.
Close swimming in dirty particles, impossibly large water pipes into
His slaying grown over analogy.