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I COULD BECOME SOME KIND OF LUCKY 2/19/2022

UN-THREAD THE NEEDLE (OF TIME)

Always Deep Blue (written 7/3-7/6/2022)

THE GLASS BETWEEN MY SELVES

A Poem From The Dark



AND THE NIGHT SKY WOULD BECOME BLUE AGAIN

I Woke Up /// re-edited 2/2/2022 12:31PM

Granddad John James re-edited 10:05Pm 1/31/22

The Grapes (Lucious Grape/ August 31, 2005

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Thank You For Being Your Own Treasure

How Hounds-tooth Became Her Friend

A Language You Can't Ignore.... re-edited 1/12/2022

They Say The Preying Mantis Is No Lady

You Can Oh Yes You Can (RE-EDITED 1/9/2021 12:07AM PST time and date stamped.)

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I Saw A Star And Dared to Reach For It

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The Nature Of Water

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Do You Gather Up Your Days The Way Others Collect Wild Butterflies?

The Man On The Red Bicycle (an ode) RE-EDITED 12/4/2021

Stray Cats and I have an understanding... 11/23/2021 copyright

If It Does Them Any Good At All 11/16/2021 date/time stamped

OUTSIDE-THE CROWS 11/14/2021

Still, More Time NOV 6 2021

The Wonder Cat

Little Bundle I Call Joy

AUGUST 1977 (IN THE REMEMBERING)

Wishing Them Onto Better Days

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OUTSIDE-THE CROWS 11/14/2021


Outside my window
I'm afforded a slice of bone-white sky
a dirty-white reflection of nearing winter's light

It seems silent but for the persistent moaning meanings
whistling through the rising winds
interspersed with a cacophonous language
of insistent birds
the darker sentinels of the sky

They've stationed themselves
at their corners
their keen red eyes scanning
the yard-denizens below
the dogs the people
the pigeons
the squirrels scampering by

Not the darkness
nor harbingers of impending tragedy
these shadow-birds so plentiful
are harbingers of the bleaker season
the months near the end of the year
resonate and echo through their cries

Some might call the opportunists
even Eaters of the yolkish sun,
the plotting blighters roaming the
sols tic skies

I think them creatures claiming their due
each one of us claiming their spot
beneath the Great Spirit's watching eyes

I call them my friends
I mimic them and the love and loneliness
I listen for in their persistent cries

They make their best out of the worst
Each crow a member of a group...
Scavenging families knit together
with inborn ties

Each member matters
unlike their fractious human counterparts
who divide themselves
pulling and tearing at the tenderest tethers
of anything which might prove to bind

The crows
rare birds
are free
but whole
in their flight
by day hunting together
by night
returning to their shared roost
the same bows and beds
where they roost
each and every night.


LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM 11/14/2021 9:32AM PST TIME AND DATE STAMPED
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AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY REGISTERED AND COPYRIGHTED SITE TITLE
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