the winter hold
days before the blizzard arrived
I noticed a small family of crows
visiting the neighborhood
leaving me pondering what on earth
they were doing here
having strayed from the larger gathering
that couldn’t have been that far away
—or perhaps they were scouts
in search of a protective copse
capable of holding hundreds
or up to one thousand of their kind
january two thousand twenty-four
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oh, the crows are very wise –
Indeed they are!
I do feel they know more than we do at times