The Nature of Our Times

Crow

  • Yvette Wiley

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  • Oklahoma

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I am just a crow
not here to argue
the merits of my existence.
I do not plan my days
filled with meetings
among brilliant minds
trying to fix the mess
you made of this world.
Yet, each morning
I fly with purpose.
My flock congregates
with simple intention.
Eat, speak, fly.
Exist.
I am crow

—

Yvette Wiley is one of the Tribal Liaisons with the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. She has been published in the literary journals: The Externalist, The New York Times Review, and Touch: The Journal of Healing. Yvette is a Muscogee citizen and Ecovlke Clan (Deer Clan). She lives with 8 cats and 2 dogs within her Tribe’s reservation/boundaries in the city of Tulsa, OK.

  • ©2025 D. Yvette Wiley

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