Saturday, December 19, 2020

December 2020 Pictorial Prompt Poetry Contest Winner




 The Crow and the Man

by David Painter





 



I sit for long days on end

Sitting where the nurse places me


It wasn’t always so

once the sun was bright on my shoulder


Briefcase in hand, train to the city


Funny, not ha-ha but funny never the less

how I started to slip

 

like too much rain on a California hill side

or a room full of marbles


Until the asylum of my mind became a silent refuge

and I forgot about you.


I watch as a crow lands with his road kill

and picks at the dead carcass


pulling off bits of flesh and

swallowing them whole


I feel as if it is my mind you know.




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