Right in the middle of church
\n outdoors in the pine woods chapel
\n the preacher gets stopped
\n by a loud caw. The preacher
\n pauses, smiles, and says,
\n“He was outside my house
\n early this morning,” and we laugh.
\n The crow caws again and grows
\n more raucous. The crows always
\n have the last word. They’ll be
\n cawing here long after
\n preacher and people have died and
\n gone to dust and dirt.
\n After church ends, as I
\n sit and write this down
\n three crows come close and watch me,
\n hoping for food, impatient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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