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Category Archives: Ravens
Between the Lines
The crows are constant scrawls There above fields of dandelions Pushing up, yellow, indecipherable, Swaying in the wind of starlings’ wings. Sometimes at evening a raven calls At the edge of the bonefield sky Eroding till the first quarter of … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Cosmology, Crows, Epistemology, John MacKenzie, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Quatrains, Ravens, Science, Space, The Moon, The Sea, The Sky, The Wind
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Raven Tanka Diptych to End July
Raven Tanka Diptych to End July 1. The Night Pouring A raven patrols July’s last sunset, pouring the night from its throat— a sky of black resin set with stars, a white shard of moon 2. The Cold Moon Clanging … Continue reading
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Move Along (a Sonnet by the Summer Sea)
Move Along (a Sonnet by the Summer Sea) Down here by the sea every word spoken is a raven’s black wings bent and straining in the updrafts over the dunes, it’s a gull’s long throat stained orange inside with guts … Continue reading
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Where Prime Ministers and Other Pricks
I am, it turns out, a misanthrope, And, though I don’t wish you all a rope Around the neck with a lovely knot Tucked behind the ear, I’ve often thought A scaffold—black with ravens and crows, Where a white dancer … Continue reading →