{"id":1058,"date":"2007-09-06T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2007-09-06T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:06:24","slug":"crow-by-gwilym-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/crow-by-gwilym-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"CROW by Gwilym Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

CROW<\/span>
 <\/span>
CROW flew just once<\/span>
in a straight line<\/span>
the hooded one<\/span>
living in my garden<\/span>
straight as a shoulder-fired missile<\/span>
brought down the escaping harrier<\/span>
seen circling CROW-EMPIRE<\/span>
rammed it side-on<\/span>
knocked it spinning out of the blue<\/span>
 <\/span>
stunned<\/span>
the red bird fell tumbling to earth<\/span>
and out of sight<\/span>
 <\/span>
for entertainment CROW plays with the wind –<\/span>
 <\/span>
CROW soars and tumbles<\/span>
                             circles and zigzags<\/span>
 <\/span>
CROW dives and darts<\/span>
 <\/span>
and drops   <\/span>
                              and dances<\/span>
 <\/span>
                like  a scrap of windblown blackbag liner<\/span>
 <\/span>
in spite of all that straight as the crow flies propoganda<\/span>
 <\/span>
but today's the long grey day<\/span>
when echoing silence reigns<\/span>
 <\/span>
so CROW won't fly this day<\/span>
 <\/span>
he'll simply sit in his tree<\/span>
with his silver eyes blinking<\/span>


\u2022 Gwilym Williams says “Oh yeah, about me: I was in the Boat House, Laugharne, where Dylan Thomas used to live, when a poltergeist tried to bash me with a curtain pole. Thinking it was a message from the other side, I decided to pen the odd verse or two as a kind of insurance. I'm just on the right side of 60 and I'm a retired cop.” <\/span>
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CROW CROW flew just oncein a straight linethe hooded oneliving in my gardenstraight as a shoulder-fired missilebrought down the escaping harrierseen circling CROW-EMPIRErammed it side-onknocked it spinning out of the blue stunnedthe red bird fell tumbling to earthand out of sight for entertainment CROW plays with the wind – CROW soars and tumbles                             circles and zigzags CROW dives and darts and drops                                 and dances                 like  a scrap of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}