American Crow, Singing Sands, Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada – 6, 2007
The crow yells orders to the city birds:
“this is my place, my space!”
Isn’t the call of the crow our call, too?
Sometimes in the afternoon sun leaves fly and feathers, too, whole trees shake with the anger of the crows:
“this is my place, my space – I am taking my space!”
Isn’t this our call, too?
All over the world, crows are calling this morning, each morning, on and on into dusk:
“this is my place, my space – I am taking my space!”
Flapping its wings, shaking leaves, bellowing over city streets, crow calls:
“I am taking my space!”
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Don’t we all take up space, want our space, as children of the creation/creator? Isn’t that why people all over the world are calling in the streets – like the crows?