Monday, May 11, 2009

Crow 6

I would lift the tablets of your laws
but they are so heavy
and so dull


that even the crows, who feast on corpses
even the crows
refuse them

6 comments:

andie said...

i like the sentiment behind this even more than the actual words/structure

i will think on it some more and look for concrete comments - what are you looking for in particular?

Jonathan Ball said...

you know, i am a bit ambivalent about this myself. maybe it's not salvageable?

andie said...

I would lift the tablets of your laws
but they are so heavy
so dull


even the crows
-the crows, who feast on corpses -
refuse them

Curiosity & Joy said...

I think the tongue gets a bit stuck in the S's of corpse line.

andie said...

hm yeh maybe replacing "feast" would do it (feed, pick at)

andie said...

I miss Jonathan's crows. Maybe you only needed half a dozen?

I'm going to have to write my crow story tonight, May is almost over.