Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

MarkMurphy

TheWedding Crow

On the red brick chimney up there, quite out of reach of man’s affairs – feeds the black crow, now and then preening her dumb show in the sizzling heat. We do not wait for her to be pleased, translate the way that man might perceive

the crow’s kaww-kawwing , but turn instead to where the eye is deceased, expurgated from the flesh-eaten socket of a vole. Poor vole! We cry, but never, Poor crow! Oh no, not the lowly crow to make us swoon

over the newborn in the nest – her crowy savagery had already begun

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