This city's hot and smoky: fires
in British Columbia, climate change.
My acquaintances the crows are
suffering. I daily provide them
food, water, and a target for their ire
(me). Today though they're really hurting.
On a wire, one of them looks
straight up at sky and opens
his mouth. The bifurcated beak
looks like an enormous black
clothespin. This is the posture
of crow prayer. God will listen.
God made crow. (Don't tell crow!)
This is the posture of a performed
aria in a silent crow opera. This
is crow cooling off. ( You knew
it would be dramatic.) This is rare
crow, too hot to caw complaints.
hans ostrom 2017
in British Columbia, climate change.
My acquaintances the crows are
suffering. I daily provide them
food, water, and a target for their ire
(me). Today though they're really hurting.
On a wire, one of them looks
straight up at sky and opens
his mouth. The bifurcated beak
looks like an enormous black
clothespin. This is the posture
of crow prayer. God will listen.
God made crow. (Don't tell crow!)
This is the posture of a performed
aria in a silent crow opera. This
is crow cooling off. ( You knew
it would be dramatic.) This is rare
crow, too hot to caw complaints.
hans ostrom 2017
