Crow and Bridge
Locking eyes with a perched crow is a transference of bird’s-eye-view,
the binocular reconciling of separate frames in one image,
side windows for each wing flying silhouette against racing cloud
at the stoop of sky, old bridge straddles peripheral shores
for winged traveler’s 4-claw swagger padding steel
tail-feather tilt and head cocked lording the view in oversight
pivoting the vista — stealing it — while the bridge’s senior bones
hold still, so long in one shape, the view rapidly changing
For Janet Jessica Lee McMillan © 2021
Written in September 2021 in response to corvid-hearted local artist Janet Kvammen’s photo of the Pattullo Bridge.