Michael Estabrook

Rich Murphy

Marge Piercy

Baby Elephant

Little pine tree off in the gloaming
looks like a little person, a dwarf maybe or an elf,
and a bumpy, gnarled tree root appears to be a skunk,
and then over on the side
of the path is a rock that looks
so much like a baby elephant I stop and stare.
I suppose I should have worn my glasses,
but sometimes for a little while at least,
it seems better to see things as they aren't.

Michael Estabrook is a Marketing Communications Manager for a tiny division of a gigantic company, and man, going into an office every day can be excruciating. The stuffy air, the florescent lights are killing him. Thankfully, he can retire in 8 or 10 years. But he still thinks that somehow he's got to get himself on some boat collecting phytoplankton, or into the rich brown hills of Montana searching for T. Rex bones. Then again maybe he simply should've stayed on Northfield Avenue where he thinks he belongs and learned to fix cars like his Daddy did.

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