Carrion Crow

It makes no sound
because it barely can—

Tearer, purifier, skirting
the edge of the sky

and the barn’s weathered
erosion into itself.

Following the path
to the water, we sense

where a deer has disappeared:
brittle bend of dry sedge,

rippled footprint, the afternoon’s
hum drawn through a perforated nostril.

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