Crows on the Campus
by
Clarice Short
Why those dark birds
Should bring the snowy country to us now
By cawing noisily through tufted trees
I cannot know. These academic groves
Are barren of all fruit; even the squirrels
Because of this year’s dearth of hackberries
Have nibbled bare the lesser limbs of elms.
Our crops are scanty. A chance grain of thought
May fall in fertile mind, but its strange flower
Is slow maturing. Here watching the snow
I do not understand why crows should come
To add their hunger to our hollowness.
March 24, 1963
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