If only the African moon
was made of ivory,
and as it weighed
so heavily on the horizon
poachers could cut it
into pieces and get away
by daybreak with a truckload
of the polished night.
I would give up the moon --
all of it -- let the earth
invent its own luminosity
if only to keep the elephants.
David Feela writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments, won the Southwest Poet Series. His first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas appeared in 2009. His new book
of essays, How Delicate These Arches , released through Raven's Eye Press, has been chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.