They swoop in small murdersfrom one church steeple to the next like some low-budget, religious-themedsequel to that Hitchcock film. They congregate in alleys behindcoffee shops and empty retail storefronts crumbling into their own emptiness.They interrupt downtown traffic, our local crows, morning, noon and night,no respect at all for the ritual of rush hour or … [Read more...] about As Crows Fly, By: Brian Beatty
Brian Beatty
About Brian Beatty
Brian Beatty is the author of five small press poetry collections and a spoken-word album. Beatty’s writing has appeared in Appalachian Journal, BULL, Conduit, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Floyd County Moonshine, McSweeney’s, The Missouri Review, ONE ART, The Quarterly, Rattle, Seventeen and The Southern Review.
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