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# Like Jesus to the Crows
- URL: https://poetry101.love/like-jesus-to-the-crows/
- Published: 2021-11-02T01:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-20T02:15:15.000Z
- Description: by Vievee Francis
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Vievee Francis, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

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that gathered there along his arms,  
upon the invitation of a slender limb.  
And not oblivious to human violence  
perhaps needed rest or needed to offer  
the succor of presence, despite the  
stiff collar of their feathers, despite  
each one being no less the children  
of a father who claimed an upper realm.  
  
It is not true they pecked his eyes. Nor  
did they consider his wounds  
their own. They were neither irreverent  
nor quiet. They spoke in the tongues  
they knew. They cawed full voiced  
and would have released him from his  
bindings had their beaks held the power  
and had there been time in that place.  
  
Like them, I have sought to comfort and  
so be comforted. Like them  
I have seen the failure of miracles when  
they were most needed. Like Him, I  
have called upon those so unlike myself  
when my father failed to answer.

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Francis, Vievee. [Forest Primeval: Poems](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forest%5FPrimeval/%5Fop7rgEACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016.