Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Feeding the Crow


Feeding the Crow

Blue-black wings
shiny onyx
close enough
I see her eyes
peering at me sideways
knowing
the question between us.

Outstretched palm
facing the sky
toward her, I answer
with my bread;
“take this” and eat.

Expecting gratitude,
communion
I catch her gaze
knowing her.

And then she knows.
Falls back, lifting
coal wings skyward

in difference.


--Beth Northup

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