Oriole & the Ovenbird Cynthia Miller-Idriss and transformative--not hallucinatory

and transformative--not hallucinatory

magical weapons

or casual strolls

as long as Harold's spirit doesn't exact his revenge first

and allows for that “new-look” for years to come

Oriole & the Ovenbird Cynthia Miller-Idriss and transformative--not hallucinatoryJust keeping an eye on things, Angela Patten tells us, but what an eye it is, one that observes a raven as a faux sorrowful funeral director, a cardinal in his ecclesiastical robe, grackles with their Prussian blue heads. And her ears are wide open, too: The sky is black with crows crying in cracked voices of their plans to steal what is left of the light and the ovenbird with its teacher teacher teacher as if imploring academics to lay down their