J.R. SOLONCHE
THREE CROWS
Three crows on three branches.
Three crows identical in everything except the branches.
They call identically and then fall into three identical silences.
The crow on the lowest branch flies off first.
The crow on the highest branch flies off next.
The crow on the middle branch flies off last.
The three thoughts they leave behind are identical.
J.R. Solonche is the author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (chapbook from Five Oaks Press), Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press), The Black Birch (Kelsay Books), I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems (Deerbrook Editions), In Short Order (Kelsay Books), Tomorrow, Today & Yesterday (Deerbrook Editions), If You Should See Me Walking on the Road (Kelsay Books), and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.