Crab Trees Poem by John Rickell

Crab Trees



The crabs are red today
tempting the blackbird
lashed by sudden rain;
they have no names,
bought from a super-market
smothered in a plastic bag
Saturday, late half price
and almost dead.
love kept them live,
through winter they glow
paying back their debt,
breakfast for the blackbird.

John Rickell
Monday, January 20, 2014
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