Felix Crow
BY KAY RYAN

Crow school
is basic and
short as a rule—
just the rudiments
of quid pro crow
for most students.
Then each lives out
his unenlightened
span, adding his
bit of blight
to the collected
history of pushing out
the sweeter species;
briefly swaggering the
swagger of his
aggravating ancestors
down my street.
And every time
I like him
when we meet.

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/kay-ryan

Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, fellow of both Guggenheim and McArthur foundations…. the woman is smart as a whip and I’ve never read an unsentimental poet I liked more, well, still thinking about Philip Larkin.