Tusk-stained-by-bark
Left the herd.
Pachyderms -- mothers, calves --
Everyone is coated in red dust
To the tops of their tree-sized legs.
Gray patches show through.
Tusk-stained-digging-through-fruit:
That bull left the herd
Just today
To mourn at the grave
Of his mother,
Near the Summer water.
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