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Jenny Bates

Jenny Bates is from North Carolina and a member of Winston-Salem Writers, the North Caroina Poetry Society, and the North Carolina Writers Network. Her published books include, Coyote with Coffee (Catbird on the Yadkin Press, NC 2014), Visitations (Hermit Feathers Press, NC 2019), and Slip (Hermit Feathers Press, NC 2020). Her newest collection is Where the Deer Sleep (Hermit Feathers Press, NC 2022). She is known locally as the animal whisperer to Donkeys, Coyotes and “Crow Folk.”

Blue Stones

The local Crows came in one afternoon
took every one of those blue stones
I placed at the entrance to my dog’s grave.
Blue as a Carolina sky they were, like a
piece of the heavens came down to rest.
Enticing to a Crow.
Did I tell you the stones glow?
I expect dark Corvid nests to be exuberant
at bedtime, light and happy Crow chatter
soft gleaming watchtowers as they come
home for the night.

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