I look out the kitchen window at the slanting light<\/p>\n
that gilds all the shrubs and trees in the yard.<\/p>\n
Tangerine clouds drift like schooners in the indigo sky.<\/p>\n
A sudden clamorous cawing of crows calls me<\/p>\n
to go outside where my like-minded neighbors<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
join me at the fence. We look up at a long row of black birds<\/p>\n
strung close together on a telephone wire.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a single crumpled feather among them. I imagine<\/p>\n
they can see themselves in the smooth sheen of their pals, their<\/p>\n
beaks filled with dark song. One of them lets loose a singular caw!<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n like some horny housewife who wants to burn the restaurant<\/p>\n down because her husband goes there every day, because<\/p>\n he sleeps after tv each night so he can wake up all fresh<\/p>\n when he leaves again at dawn. A woman can be<\/p>\n jealous of bricks and ovens and crows who seldom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n talk about restaurants or buildings because\u00a0they never go inside.<\/p>\n My neighbors and I can tell the crows\u00a0enjoy a strong wire<\/p>\n like this one they can safely perch on, where they won’t get<\/p>\n torched the second they touch down, despite the clamor<\/p>\n of voices that pass through their coiled claws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I look out the kitchen window at the slanting light that gilds all the shrubs and trees in the yard. Tangerine clouds drift like schooners in the indigo sky. A sudden clamorous cawing of crows calls me to go outside where my like-minded neighbors …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132104,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132023\/revisions\/132104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}