War Crow Poems

During the Civil War, money came late,
Indians starved, left to their fate.
Two braves came across a white farmer's food.
They were hungry and stressed and in...

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An arrow shot past my head, 

Punctured nothing resting inside. 

It took another one instead. 

 

I shrink as their land spreads, 

A heavy scar...

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Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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Manifest Destiny
by Michael R. Burch

When you were in my house
you were not free—
in chains bound.

Manifest Destiny?

I was wrong;
my plantation burned to the ground.
I was wrong.
This...

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A quiet army of concrete apartments sleep.
The golden streetlights over metal hooks remain vigilant, hanging like drops of dew.

A murder of murderers.
A murder of murderers...

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When I was young, I took a tin can to the lip.
Courtesy of my best friend.
I ran away crying for mother.
(This was my first set...

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A baby crow
cowers in the street,
trying to hide from kids
from dogs
from well-meaning people.

Its parents fret noisily,
its mother raps her beak
sharply, angrily, furiously
on the telephone wire.

A...

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Rooster Lost His Crow

I wanted to enter her barn door
I wanted her farm to the very core
She said no, we lost rapport
Our tongues then went...

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Start
With the common thread that ties this altogether but I 
Stop
In my tracks when I have no idea what that means so I 
Start
With the...

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The Murderous Crow 

Who, on Earth, would know, 
If I were but a crow? 

Lonely, wander humankind 
With murder on my mind. 

What field to...

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