Why shouldn’t crows and ravens 
be called caws and cause 
of course 
with a different 
inflection ?

Death is so ever present 
still … very still
waiting

How old was my dead mother 
when she painted that
inspirational sign?

“Some things have to be crooked to straight”

The toxic PFAS sludge was applied decades ago
Making the venison inedible 
Hunters angered

Carrion laid to waste in the fields
waiting for the forever chemicals to disapate
watching polluted scavengers 
take wing with their familiar cries
 Aren’t we all
   tainted with complex poisons

June 20,2025 SGL Brunswick, ME