Corbeau Noir

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Corbeau Noir

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I see you
fat young black bird
fat crow
fat innocent

but soon I will see you
in the carrion half-light
of this black caisson
this funeral hearse

unworthy scavenger

as you cluster in a murder
to ravage
to defile the entity
drawn in this caisson

but you cannot

the living presence it bore
is greater than you

your gluttonness lust
might pick the meat clean
pick the bones dry

but this being
has lived well beyond this muscle
beyond this sinew tendon and bone
these were its limits

now it is set free

so help yourself brother crow
sister raven
birds of black
help yourself

this essence has gone beyond
far beyond
to become infinite
pure thought
unbound energy

what you pick apart
is the afterimage
of a mortal
now eternal

so take your fill crow
have your way raven
fat black bird — do your best
engorge the glorious

then be gone
scatter
and far off

this caisson has delivered its miracle

ab hoc unum solum


photorendering entitled: “gathering” by: alice popkorn

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rob kistner © 2019

 

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  • 12 thoughts on “Corbeau Noir”

    1. Interesting. I have never known blackbirds to eat dead animals. they may eat worms, lizards, frogs but have never seen them eat dead creatures. We have quite a few of the red winged blackbirds in this area. they hog the birdfeeder though!

      1. Don’t know sbout red-winged blackbirds Toni, but crows are omnivorous scavengers. They will eat “anything”, especially a hungry murder of crows.

      1. Thank you Carrie! The visual prompt today had me searching through my library of images looking for an additional image of a crow when I came upon this Alice Popkorn piece. Her real name is Cornelia Kopp. I really love her work! I was then drawn from the cute, to the dark, to the sublime.

    2. This is so vivid. It reminds me of the “murder of crows” that seems to show up at every funeral. I had two horrible experiences with it at both my in-laws passing. Free..We are born to walk away from our flesh and bone and enter freedom. Beautiful work!

      1. Thank you Susie. I appreciate your gracious words, and that you took the time to read. Seems folks today won’t read anything much beyond 100 words… again, thank you. I am pleased this resonated for you. 🙂

    3. I appreciated your skillful presentation of crows, Rob. It brought to mind the many references I’ve read of the manner in which crows often honor the death of one of their own, in which great numbers of them rally around the dear departed for a period of time, and then, as if by command, all fly away. I very much liked your segue to “the essence has gone beyond” and “this caisson has delivered its miracle” …. magic!

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