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Elisabeth Farrell: Crow Hour

June 7, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Take what you can get

without complaint.

Pluck the meat from other lives.

Snatch the sky-blue robin’s egg.

 

No one likes your throaty caw.

Drown out the songbirds.

Pick the trash.

Swallow the discarded.

 

Look at your wings

in the sunlight, iridescent.

Find what shines. Snag it.

Lift it to the gods.

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Elisabeth Farrell

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