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American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

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the wild bird (1)

Flapping of black wings and I, alone
visions of interstices and I, alone
to transplant myself would I erase myself from here,
black shadow in the sudden shadow of the brain,
concentration of the cells
of some vegetating nerve tumor.

by Michele L. Straniero

Credit: from Diary of Ulysses at Roseland
The Sculpture of Karel Appel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, NY, 1963