An Abstract Elephant 

An Abstract Elephant 

(perhaps the color blue)

is steady;

it is stomping

through mounds of glitter and fumes.

Red clouds protrude

in a pitchy black sky, like fire;

they are smoldering and a touch

too hostile.

Behind it, air stiffens.

The past crackles in the distance.

And the elephant,

in its blood,

trudges through.