Gift of Crows by Adam Haver

Gift of Crows

Forty years with crows,
throwing kernels and
not looking back as they

caw. Time is only forward,
staccato, so we lunge
ahead with the sound,

but the bright night of
birds, this murder din,
will always recall you.

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Adam Haver’s writing has been featured in Popshot Quarterly, Poetry Scotland, Ballast, and other journals. He received the 2022 Willie Morris Award for Poetry and an award from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums for a collection of poems addressing wolf conservation. You can connect with him on X: @ac_haver.