Maryrivers's Poems

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The Crows

The Crows


  Silver Hill, 1985

On Christmas Eve,
Stockings loll
In the window
Like swollen tongues.

The echo of your voice
Rings in my ears
With the cawing of crows
Circling around carrion.

The nurses needle me,
Then go.
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by Mary Rivers

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