a crow at dusk --

       ink sinks deeper

       into the page

       -- Greg Piko (1955- ). From "The Heron's Nest, Vol 12.1 (March 2010).

       The author is looking out their window during a moment of writer's block. The last group of words that they penned lies before them in their notebook, the ink slowly being absorbed by the fibers in the paper, no longer shining as a fresh thin coating of liquid ink. Outside the window, the daylight is rapidly fading and the blackness of a crow makes it harder and harder to make out the bird in the dimming light until it, too, is finally absorbed by the dark.

       Selected and commented on by Dhugal J. Lindsay

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