Birds as Inspiration

In Seattle we are surrouned by crows

The rotund crow atop the highest spot on an apartment building along the 5 balanced on the thin metal antenna and looked around before emitting its caw, in a rapid fire of 4 or so repetitions, was it 4 or 5, that might matter, anyway when the crow was observed from the ground level a few dozen feet from the apartment structure that the bird stood up top of this crow had a long beak that looked dark from that angle except when it moved to a certain sun as it was setting angle the beak would light up with a yellowish off-whitish glow before the bird again looked skyward and its beak looked common and unremarkable--for this city had so many crows they always seemed to be busy around rush hour in their activities of gathering nesting materials and perhaps carcass meat as this early fall already saw the merging of commutes home and darkness for many on this far northern town and before long that crow was flying low and quickly over to Licton Springs where it knew the corner where flowing water sounds are usually audible and after the roughly one mile flight it landed a little hot on a branch at the edges of the new growth urban micro-forest-park.