A continuing series of photographs. I’m often asked, “how close do you get to elephants?” Well, sometimes this close. That’s my seat-mate’s hand in the lower corner. This is the Chobe River area of Chobe National Park, Botswana. Lovely grasses and rushes for the elephants to eat.
Cheryl Merrill’s essays have been published in Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity, Seems, South Loop Review, Ghoti, Alaska Quarterly Review, Adventum and Isotope. “Singing Like Yma Sumac” was selected for the Best of Brevity 2005 and Creative Nonfiction #27. It was also included in the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, 10th Edition. Another essay, “Trunk,” was chosen for Special Mention in Pushcart 2008.
She is currently working on a book about elephants: Larger than Life: Living in the Shadows of Elephants.
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ABOUT ELEPHANTS 
Hmmm. Close up and not dangerous (this time?)
Neither time was dangerous. You know how curious elephants are!
Wow! Is that close!
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