Poor dead crow
someone's eaten out your heart
Lustrous feathers, blue-black
frame the deep red cavity
Was it swift like a bullet
or a lightning bolt?
Were you hurrying home
to your nestlings at night
too close to a cat
or a speeding car?
Maybe disease gnawed you from inside
slowly day by day
until you caved in
here, underneath the freeway
someone's eaten out your heart
Lustrous feathers, blue-black
frame the deep red cavity
Was it swift like a bullet
or a lightning bolt?
Were you hurrying home
to your nestlings at night
too close to a cat
or a speeding car?
Maybe disease gnawed you from inside
slowly day by day
until you caved in
here, underneath the freeway
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