Crows

by Joshua Wait

Crows and crows and always crows
transecting telephone wires, an envelope opening,
two or three, then forty spinning, spinning,
spinning beads about a thread, feckless
dancing, sweeping pantomime about an ashy
acid sky, notes frozen, frozen in a line.

 
Sumi ink sketch of crows in flight
 
Joshua Wait

Joshua Wait studied English at UC Berkeley. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the relationship between art and

poetry in the New York School. He received a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served in programs for children, youth, and college students, in an organization addressing climate change, and in the tech industry as a CTO. He currently divides his time between his family and his artistic practice.

https://www.bluerivers.org
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