Pair of Morning Crows on a Lawn After the Rains
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Peckish down deep in twin gesture,
this pair of morning crows on a lawn after the rains;
obvious mates, that familiar shared gait
as if talking over the old times,
but what hunger has ousted from the moment is frivolous nostalgia –
worms flooded out of earth, what a treat!
This plodding onyx alliance, never more than a few feet apart,
seemingly working as a team in all endeavours:
so this is what they have meant each time
impenetrable castle hugs trusted moat.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Kavya Kishore Magazine, GloMag, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.