You should set the crow to work
as soon as you can.
For the pennies you spend on peanuts,
you create in her a grinding hunger--
for home, for mother, for lover.
It will serve you well.
as soon as you can.
For the pennies you spend on peanuts,
you create in her a grinding hunger--
for home, for mother, for lover.
It will serve you well.
She will unhaunt your days,
gather up the frayed edges of your life,
bind them with remnant thread.
You can trust her
not to store up treasures.
There is no marketplace
for what we have forgotten
to remember.
Her gathering is all
the erotic joy of the find,
solitary flight and impossible vision
turned to tenderness and submission.
gather up the frayed edges of your life,
bind them with remnant thread.
You can trust her
not to store up treasures.
There is no marketplace
for what we have forgotten
to remember.
Her gathering is all
the erotic joy of the find,
solitary flight and impossible vision
turned to tenderness and submission.
She relishes your carelessness;
it is your courtship.
it is your courtship.
Take a moment to hear that.
She needs you to unclench.
How else could you love
her blue-black anonymity
and her plaintive common caw,
if you couldn't call her curator,
redeemer?
How else could you love
her blue-black anonymity
and her plaintive common caw,
if you couldn't call her curator,
redeemer?
