Sunday Stories: Counting Crows

Santāna

A murder of crows soars above the author’s home in Laguna Beach, California.

Onyx silhouettes alight in the gloaming,

shouting across the canyon, voices carried

on thermal zephyrs we’ve christened

for the Virgin Mary’s mother or

the Bringer of Light, depending on

your view of history and elision.


The Tishbite Elijah believed them

angelic …