* * * Karasu, or One for the Crows Kobe, 2017 Interludes of birdsongs pierce the bustling city, but there are no birds. Only black boxes hidden in the…
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The Birds: a poem
by Guest Contributor October 7, 2021featured photo by Talitha May * * * End of the World When I finally found you It was the end of the world. The corals bleached The eastern trees…
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The Birds: 3 poems
by Guest Contributor June 22, 2021* * * good of you a crow lands just in front of me on the blackwire turns his beak sideways his opal eyes canine he knows i walk here…
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The Birds: 4 poems
by Guest Contributor June 17, 2021* * * Even the Crows At sundown Venus, small __and brighter than the moon blazes in the Western Sky __Lanky Maples dress up their dull grey bones __in an…
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The Birds: Elegy for a Tree
by Guest Contributor April 12, 2021The morning after the neighbors cut down the tree, my yard was quiet. The crows that for the last 15 years had woken me every morning like an alarm clock…
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The Birds: The Carrion Eaters
by Guest Contributor December 14, 2020* * * I. You already know how I feel about crows and the girls they follow, crows who make little distinction between a worm and an eye plucked from…
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The Birds: The Crows
by Guest Contributor December 16, 2019My mother has purchased antique cap guns to get the crows. She hates the crows because they cornered a squirrel in her backyard. She watched them from the kitchen window…
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The Birds: portrait of the artist’s trichotillomania as crows (study for woodshed), andrew wyeth, tempera on panel, 1944
by Guest Contributor April 26, 2019after Julissa Emile, Anita Dias, Golden, Brandon Melendez, & Valin Paige when under emotional distress, as with a cage that does not provide breath for its wings, a domesticated…
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The Birds: Taking Flight
by Rachel Laverdiere March 26, 2019Push your cheek against the porch window. Ha! How fitting the ruckus should come from the neighbors! you snicker. Then, remember how whenever you’d complain about the young couple next…