Beautiful Dust

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I feel it, for a moment,
through an African elephant’s senses,
the breadth of living on earth.
Through elephant eyes,
the vastness, the span,
the scope of being alive.
And the red dust rising,
the beautiful dust
to which we each go home.
©Susa Silvermarie 2026
after reading The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasky

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