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The Father

Crows like company.

Family breakfasts

     on hot summer mornings,

Neighborly roosting

     on cold winter nights.

Sometimes it is fine to be

     just one

To sail a sweet breeze

To walk a frozen pond

To wander on your own from town to country

     and back again.

But always we return to flocks,

     feasts, and complications.

Leave solitude to woodpeckers,

     hummingbirds, phoebes,

     evil owls, hateful hawks.

We are crows.

And crows like company.





Copyright © 2001 by Marilyn Singer

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