Darkness Fell
8.25.2014
I walked the walk
I walked the line
A car backfired
Sent the raven flying
It squawked
It cawed
Startled from hidden perch
Now flapped overhead
As it had twisted and lurched
A feather had loosed
From a wing of jet black
A black feather had loosed
And fell from its back
From wing interrupted
The black feather erupted
It made its descent
And me none-the-wise
Until black feather fell
Before the whites of my eyes
In that very instant
A dark night’s swell
For in that fleeting moment
Darkness fell