Pink Elephant

First published in True Colour (Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014).



a lotto ticket

taped to the fridge

by the pink slip


tickled pink

the autistic boy


complaining

of pinkeye

the ventriloquist


framed in the foyer

Pink Floyd tickets

from 69


my ex accountant

in the pink


asylum visit—

uncle keeps telling me

about the pink elephant