Language question:
Jill Jones tells me that the Australian Raven is commonly called "crow."
Here you call it "raven." Is this a regional difference?
The northern hemisphere raven is anatomically identical to the Australian
variety, though there must be some chromosomal differences. Its call is
completely different. One of the first things that struck me when I arrived
in Sydney.
Mark
At 11:04 AM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
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>RAVEN AT STICKYBEAKS CAFÉ
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>for Rosalind and Kay
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>'Oh, go away!'
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>raven drops his complaint
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>to a grieving grizzle -
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>ah, ah, aaaaaahhh .
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>long last note after
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>the death of love.
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>'He'd be good as sculpture -
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>see? The shiny metal
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>of his feathers, the fleshy bag
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>of his chin.' What would
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>we make of him if
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>he was made by us?
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>Raven perches on
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>a glazed tree root
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>carved into a kangaroo
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>beside the playground.
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>'He should be in a museum
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>under glass - not here.'
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>Real? Art is distanced
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>from this day, its chill
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>and laughing children.
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>Art? It is real root
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>and black raven -
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>Ah, ah, aaaaahhh.
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