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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Sunday bird blogging


A raven in Half Moon Bay.

I'd never seen a raven in the wild before, and this one was lording it over some crows and blackbirds in a picnic area before flying up in this tree, and I was surprised once again by how huge they are.

I wouldn't say his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, but if he or one of his friends should happen to take residence on a pallid bust of Pallas just above your chamber door, you too might well be driven to write mad gothic poetry about the situation.

1 comment:

Elisa said...

Shiny, brilliant creature, that raven. And the Robert Hass poem about birds and absence was beautiful, too.

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