Elephants Never Forget

Haibun
A bronze elephant statuette rests on four coffee-table books. Its trunk curls up in a bellow to challenge rivals or predators.
Another elephant: a plaster-of-Paris statuette from a mold. It rests on the kitchen table in Holland Avenue. Or Dixwell Road.
escape from the heat—
the aroma of an elephant’s
drying skin
more by FRANK J. TASSONE
photograph by Jay Mantri






You have written nearly a hundred haibuns. That is admirable. They are like a river of thoughts. What a fine journey it has been reading them.
Thank you Milen!