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Laura
Stamps has published over 500 poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews
in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and broadsides like the Louisiana
Review,
Ibbetson
Update,
Big
City Lit,
Poesy
Magazine,
American
Writing,
Fullosia
Press,
and Lummox
Journal.
She is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and prose.
See www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com (laurastamps@mindspring.com).
Laura Stamps Crows First week of September, and my favorite birds, the ones that sizzle under a Southern sun like glossy black cats, hunch over the bowls, pleased with their lunchtime treat. Now they toss a few pieces of cat food down the shadowed corridors of their throats. Now they flap their lustrous wings, seeding the kitten’s water bowl with dust. Now they screech a crow song to magnolias and wisteria vines, voicing words the color of mid- night after each joyous bite.