Solitary Plover – Summer 2020
Adoration of the Ear
– ekphrasis on an African linguist’s staff
crooked staff
like a great tree
ground-sprung
swept air clear for
feeling’s drum
burnished gold leaf,
with thumb roll of
an elephant’s dung
into ear shape
with a trunk trumpets
vowels of savannah
Donna Fleischer
Solitary Plover Summer 2020
issue #32