The Apocrypha of Familiars

“The Apocrypha of Familiars” Wings hover light luminescent revelling sprites dark pearls Corvidae shades of a family highly functioning dysfunctional plural morphing unobserved perceived non-unique spiralling into shape more black and grey than white spills from their eyes light from their shining hidden away intelligence sharp beaked tapping codes, self-aware, they recognise themselves cloaked and disrobed in the mirrors of others' tomes children produced from opposites ruthless reigning raven and charming dove chanteuse it is said, in blurred stories, of the ancient ones, no tears washed the feet perched on that brittle rose dripping thorny cross the tales of their time spent there sham flighty fanciful Apocrypha the birds stopped singing their hearts were shocked and ceased beating while watching from above men murdering heroes and saints as beasts, no reflective love no tears - not from their blackcap eyes, but torn open - deep sorrow planted where their precious ruby jewels were sown passerine without tongues those singing things stolen unlike man they now speak of far kinder gods avian drop like silent songs a murder of murmuration minds blistered unbalanced ominous and unexplained dark numbers glassy eyed, brain dead magnetised, still their plumage ruffled by folktales and floods carrying misfortune and a devil’s drop of blood, superstition says they never entered Noah’s ark nor alighted from above preferring to sit in the rain gossping amongst themselves chortling their chirping falsetto over the much maligned untouchables, the stained black and white the shadows of a soul blur to impious grey truth spoken false by chattering non-confessional scarlet cardinals suffocates all innocence the piercing ... honesty of those beautiful pure all seeing eyes the wise inky-stained intelligent feathered quills the small yet larger familiars fade away (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "Grisgris"/ Grimes https://youtu.be/2qtUQa5qvFE "One for Sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told." Hundreds Of Birds Suddenly Drop From The Sky In Mexico https://youtu.be/ZUQb-weg2lM Flock of birds suddenly fall from the sky in Mexico https://youtu.be/WHRAKowr67s Scientists think they know why hundreds of birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Mexico https://www.salon.com/2022/02/17/scientists-think-they-know-why-hundreds-of-birds-mysteriously-fell-from-the-sky-in-mexico/ Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why https://www.dw.com/en/birds-are-dying-in-the-united-states-and-no-one-knows-why/a-58163063 On Animal Deaths and Human Anxieties/ New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/on-animal-deaths-and-human-anxieties Mass Mortality event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_mortality_event Top 10 Extremely Strange Mass Animal Deaths https://owlcation.com/stem/Top-10-Strange-Mass-Animal-Deaths Top 10 Strange Mass Animal Deaths https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2040762,00.html Mass Animal Deaths 2016 to 2022 https://www.end-times-prophecy.org/animal-deaths-birds-fish-end-times.html Magpie Symbolism and Meaning (Totem, Spirit, and Omens) https://www.sonomabirding.com/magpie-symbolism/ The Superstition & Truth Behind Magpies https://www.thefactsite.com/truth-behind-magpies grisgris/talisman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris-gris_(talisman) LYRICS/"Grisgris", Grimes https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Grimes/Grisgris/translation/english sown/sewn