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by Lori Vest
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Outside my window
of the house on the hill
the first one with real heat
I see the crows in the dead tree
For days I have watched them
watch me
Downstairs in the house on the hill
my mother sits unable to see them
the blackness eating her alive
My brother saw the same black birds before he left
I see them every day
watching me
watch them
as I close the blinds
The silent scream starts
in the house on the hill
the first one with real heat
The black birds sit still
in the dead tree
as the blackness
falls on all that is around them
Lori Vest is the mother of three boys and has been married 21 years to "the first one." She was born and raised in Covington, Virginia, and will be bured there unless the town blows up. Her favorite quote is: "Baby, I know you think I'm crazy and I know it's true . . . if you knew what I knew, you'd be crazy too!"
Lori is the sister of David Norris, prolific and talented USADS writer. Write Lori at trinityx3.
Read more of her work here at USADEEPSOUTH: "And how was your week?"
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