It is an old story of disfunction.
While I see the beauty of a crow
that has an ugly voice
but a wonderful wing spread
undulating shadows in the sky,
controlling the sun’s light
falling to earth,
its feathers holding the air,
you see only a bird.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.