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Raven
by Vonnie Winslow Crist
Day implodes, vanishes
in a red O.
Lone raven paces
on cottonwood bough above
a browning lawn that rolls
down to chokecherry and sumac.
She holds the secrets of night
under her wingfeathers,
guards that knowledge
with claw and blood,
obeys no man,
choosing hunger over servitude.
Raven caws our names
in raucous voice, abandons tree
in an explosion of black
and swallows the ...
Day implodes, vanishes
in a red O.
Lone raven paces
on cottonwood bough above
a browning lawn that rolls
down to chokecherry and sumac.
She holds the secrets of night
under her wingfeathers,
guards that knowledge
with claw and blood,
obeys no man,
choosing hunger over servitude.
Raven caws our names
in raucous voice, abandons tree
in an explosion of black
and swallows the ...
Vonnie Winslow Crist , BS Art-Ed, MS Professional Writing, Towson University, is a columnist for "Harford's Heart Magazine," an illustrator for "The Vegetarian Journal," editor of "The Gunpowder Review," and a contributor to "Faerie Magazine." Cold Moon Press recently published a collection of her fantasy stories, "The Greener Forest," available at Amazon and elsewhere. Would you like to support our contributors? As a subscriber, you could use your subscription fee to pay this author for their work, as well as receive lots of extra subscriber perks!
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