NAPOWRIMO #5

Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Prompt #5 - Make Your Poetry Personal

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ANALOGIES

Crow is to a dropped and long-forgotten French fry, encased in its clothing of congealed grease

as Crow is to a glittering bauble

as Crow is to a knife of shattered mirror that retains an image of the last person staring into its glassy dimensions

as Crow is to a string of multicolored yarn

as Crow is to a scrap of discarded newsprint tattered by weathering wind into a poem of its own making

as Crow is to Canadian pennies

as Crow is to a deformed root vegetable, rising from the worms and making itself known to the hardening glare of summer sun

as Crow is to scratched lottery tickets

as Crow is to a shred of red-dyed aluminum can that sings its “la” to all who will listen

as Crow is to chewing gum wrappers

as Crow is to a chip of paste-white paint from the peeling picket fence of a neighboring farm house

as Crow is to half of a wooden nickel

as Crow is to the lid of a spice container from a store that specializes in stocking supplies for the familiarity and comfort of its Latin American immigrant customers

as Crow is to the feather of another crow gliding earthward in a game of feather tag

as Crow is to a rattling blackened walnut shell with a hint of dried meat within

as Crow is to the newborn nestling of the screeching and scolding house finch hen

as Crow is to the warm muscle of a shellfish surrounded by bits of its shattered exoskeleton, having been dashed upon the shoreline’s riprap

as Crow is to a piece of broken vinyl record

as Crow is to a small key missing from the necklace chain that kept it safe until needed to open the diary and jotted thoughts of a ten-year-old girl

as Crow is to a piece of broken vinyl record

as Crow is to a dropped and long-forgotten French fry, newly rediscovered.

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Today, alternate ego, sometime muse, trickster extraordinaire, and my all-around favorite Aesop character gets to have his say. This is the ordinary everyday and the fantastical everyday at play with one another. This is the obsession of Crow as he watches the world. And this is the obsession of Crow as he watches the world. And this is the obsession of Crow as he watches the world...