Time to try it.
Ghazal
Travel to the last room of the mind -- find a raven
waiting on a bony ledge. The soul is a raven.
I like to bury my hand in my dog's fur: hot silk,
black and sleek, gleaming like the wet wing of a raven.
In China and Japan, the black bird feeds its parents.
To find land, Noah sent a silent eye, a raven.
If I ride a motorcycle, it will be throaty
black, growling hot between my thighs, fly like a raven.
An ambulance wails across the bridge. The sky burns gray.
Tight buds coat the trees. At the top of one -- a raven.
MacDiarmid is the Campbell clan, and means "crooked mouth."
Laurie bends laurels, twists leaves into atomic ravens.
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Damn, that was hard. Took me for flipping ever.
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