Long Deathmorning Poems

The Black Crow

I first noticed the black crow sitting on the lower branch of the old oak tree/ In front of 
my house, ten yards out; it's eyes seemed to follow me/ No matter what I was doing, the 
bird knew/ Calculated my every move/ Uncharacteristically flapping it's wings, that seemed 
to let me know it disapproved/ Whether I was raking leaves or washing the car/ Those 
sharp black eyes would not be far/ 
 
       I thought it was a dream, or perhaps the clock radio/ I awoke in the night to a tapping, 
rapping at my bedroom window/ Wiping sleep from my eyes/ I opened the curtain and 
jumped back with a cry/ It was the black crow pecking on the glass like he wanted in/ And I 
would have sworn I saw a grin!/ Maybe my eyes were tricked by the luminous moon light/ 
As I began to raise the window, it flew away into the chilly dark night, out of sight/ Uncertain, 
I closed the curtain and crawled back into bed/ Deep troubling thoughts filled my head/
 
       The next morning after eating toasted bread/ I found the black crow, dead!/ It was 
laying next to my car/ So in a plastic bag I carried it/ To the back yard, I buried it/ By the 
time I was finished I was running late./ I had this eerie feeling as I drove slowly past my iron 
gate/ Something was amiss, not quite right/  I came to an intersection and stopped at the 
light/ 
 
       As I waited for the light to change/ I felt strange/ I saw death in my minds eye/ Then 
the explosion of a tanker-truck lit up the morning sky/ Shielding my face, I let out a cry!/ 
And as my windshield shattered, the screams were amplified/ I found myself across the 
middle console on my backside/ It seems the sounds of twisted metal never died/ I finally 
managed to sit up, wild-eyed/
 
       I stepped out and away from my car in a daze/ Several vehicles were ablaze/ I 
wondered how could something like this happen so close to the holidays/ But I felt someone 
had to die and this was deaths blow/ And then I looked up into the smoke filled sky and saw 
a black crow!/