Carrion

Studying the studying staring back - heavy shiney black on the coffin road - I stood in the gods an imposing carrion crow perched Johnny Cash of fauna Studying the studying piercing dark inquisitive eyes scanning for a body - to beak hack Leaving - his panoramic but dead observation tree, higher than me the white thickly splattered heavy branch reverberates - a silent metronomic Catching thermals or up draughts vulturing round and rising his energy conservation guarantee Pin point eyesight for miles cleaning catchment of two valleys funeral bell caw caw caw fades into feathered undertaker silence Smelly mutton, frogs, afterbirth and cold lamb, traditional tallies contemporary road fill habit rat hedgehog squirrel - rabbit