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For a Crow on a Telephone Wire

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July 21, 2006
While For a Crow on a Telephone Wire by ~prufock takes inspiration from the poetry of Ted Hughes in its approach, in itself it is no less compelling or tangibly 'oppressive'.
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being black is oppressive,
     ballast in a body that should not
          sit so elegantly on a flimsy wire.

lines should tense or bend
     beneath your weight, but you have bones
          formed of wind

and ride on things less dense.
"For a Crow on a Telephone Wire:"
there wasn't room for the colon.

i've been reading a lot of Ted Hughes.

this is an incomplete version. i plan on adding a few more stanzas, but i thought it put it up and test the waters
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You probably don't need me to tell you this, but I think it's freaking brilliant! It really sounds like something that should be in a poetry anthology. Do you write a lot?