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An Elephantine Word

What every poem requires:

A word of length,
A word from dusty bookshelves,
A word found rarely somewhere else—
A word whose meaning is self-evident, intuitive, peculiar;
A word inserted curiously, fetchingly, puzzlingly:

An elephantine word.

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