Best Howdah Poems

The forest of limitless green,
The spill of red blood,
The rite of sunrise,
White pantaloons to turn away the sun:

An elephant shuffles along
swaying side to side.
He is swathed in red.
The rider sways in his howdah.
His eyes squint at the Asian sun.

Somewhere in the forest 
a sadhu is...

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