Eagle Elephantine Poem by Saul McCandless

It keeps ticking
How you decide on who lives
Let them drown but once, twice
Shaking terra firma, at speed
Planets come and be amazed
I am wise, prize, disguise
Swimming 'neath your telescope
What makes mathematics of the fallen...
To maps of soul harbours
Trinkets of base metals
Petals from a black orchid
Dancing, a tonne at a time
When I grow up...
Want to be a baby elephant
Dry sand and wet dew
Decipher ancient scripts
From the time of Moses.