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The Winter of our Discontent

10,000 Birds

They play and dance in front of tethered dogs, all the while going about the serious business of stealing those same dog’s food. I delight in their songs, and the sound their wings make slicing the cold air. Ravens play. They play on wind dancing on currents invisible to us. They play on snow, sliding down banks on their black backs.

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So this is Christmas

10,000 Birds

Or they called at us from dog teams tethered on the ice, too busy stealing food to have a closer look. Only the planets are visible at noon, the sky too light for the brightest stars. Out of that sky, as we slid along, Ravens dipped down checking us out.

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