Crow Struts

Crow struts
along the road
hop bopping
as crows will do
on the ground

the yellow
brown mountains
begin to once again
appear from out of the dark

His head up
morsel searching

telling the trees
that the time has come
to shed the night

cast off the dark

so the twitter creatures
can begin to talk

and Orpheus will play his lyre.

Stephen Brown
June 2017