C is for Crow

ABC Wednesday
July 26th, 2017

The letter is C for CROW

Every morning

crow 

steps

along the beach

as though he found the world

brand new,

and wonderful,

and without a doubt,

made especially for him.

The eiders stare,

the black ducks are busy

with their own affairs

as he marches 

along the wrack line

on his sturdy feet

to the bounty of stranded sea worms,

crabs,

abandoned bags of popcorn

"oh yes" his big black beak seems to say,

"this is good,

here is breakfast and lunch both

and as for dinner

I'll be back.

What a good world!"

I wish we could be friends,

but when he sees me

daring to look at him

he opens his strong arms

that are dressed,  always, in the darkest ribbons,

and floats off...

but only a little way

and he's down again on the sandy track -

and who has seen yet anything cleaner,

bolder,

more gleaming, more certain of its philosophy

than the eye he turns back?

Mary Oliver

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