Indeed, what's wrong with this picture?

The elephant trumpets by blowing INto its trunk:

Around here things sometimes work in reverse

don't go the way you think they should

and we are used to that and trust in it;

behold the close-up of the gourd horn

fashioned from a bent-stemmed lagenaria;

the elephant's trunk - the stem -

is fitted with a trumpet mouthpiece

and merely by changing your mouth's

embouchure

whole tunes are played -

by blowing INto the elephant

whose ears are fashioned from the piece

of the gourd shell that was

surgically sawn away

and split in two;

a self-contained elephant

who dances to others' tunes

in reverse;

through a looking glass

if you want to see.

It won't be pretty.