Rene Magritte, Homesickness, 1941
Oedipus Rex
Max Ernst
1922
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Crows scream and pitch in the woods
like the ruckus of old women fighting
for the shreds of their lives.
A sudden silence — then the hum
of a black-winged cloud oozing
through the naked sky —
the ruckus begins again.
—“Mid February” by Ann Campanella, from What Flies Away. © Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2006.
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