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A crow carrying a pine cone larger than its body flapped its black wings as it flew among the trees.
Others called out hoarse encouragement fluttering from branch to leafy branch.
The effort seemed enormous but meaningless as I turned back to the blank page before me.
Patrick Flanigan, from Milk and Coffee (Monterey, CA: Pacific Grove Publishing, 2002). Posted by kind permission of the poet.
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