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Mourning Crow

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Mourning Crow

—in memoriam Andrew Darnall
February 20, 1970 - March 16, 1996

Morning brings mourning tears;
sunslight fears form sorrow,
blackwinged, on a piano-wire-perch;
head, night-hidden behind feathers, rests—
solitary bird; from east, sun-ray heats brilliant blackbreast;
city sunshine slow-bakes bird in concrete-gray world;
here comes mockingbirds with wing-beating beakswords,
and sorrow’s bird, peace disturbed, stirs,
spreads wings wide, greets the mocking-day with high lonesome crow cry,
and flies.
Beyond cinder-blocks to sky-rise,
black sorrow silhouettes on blue ...
and ...
gone.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.

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