Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks October 2014: Halloween | Page 18

CrowScareCrow he sat in fields
As orange glow defended. He
Demented on the facts of business
Is this it? To watch the bees
Fall to the ground as with the leaves
To watch the badger and the fox
Scratch a living from the frost
To hear the chirp of Robin as
He claws with bleeding talon and
To stare in opus silence
With the breaker and creator’s
Only sound a distant note
Of sombre lamentation.
Crow composer of the dead –
Scare narrator of the end –
Crow–Scare–Crow.

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