Elephant Minus Ethel Belle Taylor Faulkner   © Copyright 2019 by Charles Faulkner

I have a checkered elephant

That goes to bed with me

I had no time to make his eyes

And so he cannot see

His tusks were funny bits of cloth

Their use I could not see

So I sewed right past the place

Where they were spos’d to be

Some folks think that he’s a dog '

But he’s got a trunk you know

Even that drags on the floor

Unless he stands just so

This poem was written in the 1930's while a Ethel was a student at Stephens College.  

Photo of the "Arts Group" in costume.  Ethel is in the middle row, far right.