On Divination by Birds.(Poem) From: Harvard Review | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Johnson, Kimberly | COPYRIGHT 2006 Harvard Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
I don't need that black 
 
wind of crows kicking up from flax to tell 
heavy weather coming, white days to drop 
barricades across the interstate, 
 
against two hundred miles of trackless white. 
(The crows so obvious then against the miles 
of trackless white!) More tricky the magpies 
 
flicker and croak at the sunken carcass 
of a roadkill deer, raveling with beaks 
th...