✨ Goodnight Crow

a child’s blue marble...

Goodnight Crow

(with thanks to Margaret Wise Brown)

On the thirteenth floor
there was a great green tree
and a big deep nest
and a picture of
a crow swooping past the shore
and there were three little squirrels hiding their pearls
and a diamond ring and a child’s blue marble
and mama crow quietly whispering “garble”
Goodnight floor
Goodnight shore
Goodnight crow swooping past the shore
Goodnight puzzle
Goodnight muzzle
Goodnight spoon
And goodnight rune
Goodnight halo
(if you say so)
Goodnight bolts
And goodnight toggles
Goodnight marble
And goodnight to the mama crow whispering “garble”
Goodnight midnight
Goodnight wind
Goodnight corvids.
Ever wend.

—Megan Willome

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From Rainbow Crow: Poems In and Out of Form, Copyright © 2022. Used by permission of T. S. Poetry Press. Featured photo by Hersh Chauhan, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.