2024 NaPM 23 April

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no unkindness

just a single raven
outside the grocery store
of all places
cawing loudly

obviously unafraid
of the people who stopped
to take pictures
it walked right up to me

cawing loudly
obviously injured
couldn’t fly
probably asking for help

I took no pictures
but instead made the call
and was grateful when
animal control arrived

even though I knew
how this would probably end



NOTE: This is a true story from earlier today. 
I've since learned that a group of ravens is called an 'unkindness'. 

Very vivid and heartbreaking too.  When I lived in Austin, there was a Widlife Rescue center.  Took many an orphan possum or racoon, once an owl with a broken wing that they saved.  But that was a rarity of a place.

Brillant title.

Tim