Eau Galle Reservoir
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