the sea horse brain speaks to itself across the divide
its two parts its two selves its two containers of
thought and memory hello hello
seemingly unreachable
until
the sea horse brain speaks to itself the elephant blue
the elephant shape fence
to fence
even
as one fence was torn down
and replaced and
another painted over bamboo green
the eye of the elephant is leaf
the trunk slope of
ivy
the elephant grey
what wasn’t reached
(the elephant has always protected me)