Delphina

.…out of another dream                                       
Pahn hikes                                   
across a field of stones
and weeds
 
                            seeing a young woman
        blond
and bending
                   facing away
he has a sense of recognition

She rises and turns                                                        
toward him                                     
like a discus thrower
holding a raven
                                 in her palm

Calling Pahn’s name                                                    

Saying                                                      
“Do you want a raven?
             He’s not shiny and new
                and he doesn’t talk
                                                     like a magpie”

She throws the raven
                                                                                into the air
 
                                                         wings turning to patches

                                                                   of black and white

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