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The Day They Shot The Crows

By

Tom Langlands

Poetry Selected by Clara Burghelea
Tom Langlands
The Gist

Tom Langlands is a retired architect, award-winning photographer and photojournalist with a particular passion for wildlife and nature. Based in rural, southwest Scotland his writing and photography have featured in numerous publications in the UK and abroad. His photography has been exhibited at various locations across the UK. He frequently combines his photography and writing with each medium inspiring the other to generate ever more powerful imagery. In recent years he has had more time to concentrate on his love of poetry - both reading and writing. His poems often draw on the things he has photographed that have left a lasting impression. This is his first submission to The Blue Nib.

The Day They Shot The Crows

The crows were dropping 
from the trees
wings broken and flapping
the squawks of a murder
rattling the vacuum
where feathers fall as fast as stones

Bloody
black hollows
in the shagpile snowdrops

The newborn lambs
saw where death had trod
and cried 
with both eyes

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