{"id":4316,"date":"2016-12-28T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2016-12-28T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T02:02:44","slug":"on-the-cold-dark-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2016\/12\/28\/on-the-cold-dark-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On the cold dark road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jet black pinion\u00a0juts just off\u00a0vertical
\nflutters\u00a0on the pavement from a clump of
\ncoal \u2014 or feathers, jumbled black feathers,
\nI see now: a crow lying on the road.<\/p>\n

No accident this, but cold intent. A rock
\n\u2014 lowbrow tool’s tool, I heard it hit and
\nflip, followed by the scrambling splat
\nof the questioning crow, crying on the road.<\/p>\n

Talon twitches at the end of a thin inkish
\nsquiggle \u2014 and that fierce dark disk tilts,
\nlooks for the explanation, please \u2014 a reason;
\nbut there is no why, just dying, on the cold dark road.<\/p>\n

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