zafusy

Crow you gurgle you
swoop and oak populous
over steeple & you are born.

The leaves flutter as your wings
drained of color
are already winter in autumn

mulch clogging gutter crunchy as feather’s marrow.

Drawn, you couldn’t crow open
my mouth without aid of fingers—our opening
of skin into the animal outside sky.

Joseph Bradshaw

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