Squawking, Soaring Crows

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Squawking, Soaring Crows

A bent-open paper clip
A cigarette butt
A half-eaten carton of Chinese take-out
A used condom
A dry lizard corpse
A crushed Coke can

It's 7:45 p.m. and
I am plodding to my car
Through the empty parking lot
All the way to the street
Because there were no parking spaces
When I arrived this morning

Suddenly
Overhead
A chorus of squawking crows
Bursts into song:

Cawing and cackling and
Soaring and swirling and
Darting and diving and dancing

Calling my tired eyes
Up from the ground
To the heavens above

And my bent-open-paper-clip-cigarette-butt-
Half-eaten-carton-of-Chinese-take-out-used-condom-
Dry-lizard-corpse-crushed-Coke-can-
Life
Is
Transformed


     

 

           

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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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