Migration

Poetry
Written By Grantmakers in the Arts GIA

Jenny George

Crows assemble in the bare elm above our house.
Restless, staring: like souls
who want back in life.

— And who wouldn’t want again

the hot bath after hard work,
with soft canyons of splitting foam;
or the glass of spring water
cold at the mouth?

To be startled by beauty — drops of bright

blood on the snow.
To be radiant.

All morning the crows watch me in the garden

putting in the early onions.
Their bodies look oiled.
Back in, back in,
they shake the wooden rattles.

Copyright © 2020 by Jenny George. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 19, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.

Key image by Chris Briggs on Unsplash

Grantmakers in the Arts GIA

Grantmakers in the Arts is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit regrantors, and national service organizations – funders of all shapes and sizes across the US and into Canada.

https://www.giarts.org
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