One time.

She is my Valkyrie, my love. My mama bear, in elegant repose.

I am a tinkerer, a thinker, a who’s it, what’s it, sitter in the forest, watcher, recorder, reorder, time time time. I have terrible teeth and a receding hairline. I gather time and she repels it. Someday I’ll just be an old man with an elegant women by my side, I can’t say that I can complain. There are worse hells than happiness.

She is my Crow, protect and love. My goddess of war and strategy. Of Knick knacks and trinkets. My over thinker, my confidante, my precious moment. She is my precious moment.

You do not understand what joy erupts in my heart everytime I can make her smile or laugh. Even if it’s at me. Even if it’s at her.

I feel that we are timeless. Elusive, unrecognized sometimes, adored others

If you are brave you can see. If you are brave you can see.

one time I went out into the storm. Fires, and debris, bits of shiny glass. There she always is, picking among the fallen. I reach out towards her and she hops up my arm.

She is a wild thing, something I can’t tame, can’t mold. She is a wild thing, and I love her, And so she hops up my arm and  we walk together among all the empty detritus. All the empty store fronts. She cried out into the night and her cry is almost human.

“An adventure?” I ask as she caws, I don’t ever know what she is talking about, but I have a hint that I know she is talking about something. Some place far off in clicks and squawks and squonks.

In the way she purrs and clicks in my ear. In the way that her wings turn to arms, her feathers, her tresses and she is sitting beside me smiling and wanting.  I drape a bit of cloth over her and help her up. She has to walk barefoot through this wasteland but I help.

I set a fire, I start to boil water just like I do every night. She sits shivering slightly on the mud and dirt.

one day I met a women who was a crow and I fed her a bowl of warm broth, and I told her things could be different. Thee end.

but it wasn’t the end. Thank goodness for that. And she is still here with me even now.

One time…