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its a magnificent picture of them
in one panoramic snapshot from the top of a downtown building there must be an entire generation here crows by the hundreds maybe even the thousands gathered together here on one block the flock crowded into the largest of trees with the longest of branches roosting survivors of a series of singular winter storms which had tried to wipe out the denizens of Portland but not them here they are triumphant perched among the hundred year elms I am awe struck my breath sucked away as if I were with them perched in the cold side-by-side the sea of their uncountable numbers murder upon murder of crows I bow to them saluting them with my brilliant smile LEGAL COPYRIGHT FEBRUARY 24 2017 FOR THIS POEM/WORK AND ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR WRITER MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED SITE TITLE MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD THIS IMPRESSION FROM A PICTURE POSTED ON THE SITE HIDDEN PORTLAND FOR THE CURIOUS WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON FACEBOOK This was certainly the winter of our discontent. Snowfall upon snowfall for a town that doesn't see snow. And no plows to speak of to plow it. This was almost like that Stephen King novel with Jack Nicholson in the lead role in the lead role. And all through it a killer flu epidemic raging. 9 homeless people including a newborn baby dying on the frozen streets. This was surely the ugly winter of many's discontent. Made us all hanker after an eternal Spring, which by the way did not come until the very last day of March which was the rainiest March ever. I think P-landers where beginning to feel they were living in Job-like counter-reality. If it wasn't snow shutting down the city, it was floods carrying pieces of it away...landslides and the like. Okay. Fingers crossed that things improve. That is why I was so moved at the resiliency and inventiveness of these fantastic birds, the crows. They are true survivors. If you could have seen this photograph, it would've taken your breath away. Definitely worthy of the National Geographic magazine, maybe even a Pulitzer Prize for photography. I would like a copy. Vote for this poem |
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