I actually always imagine the bird in An Evil Bird by Anna Sykora to be a raven. Alas, I haven’t any pictures of a raven, so I’m going to use this one of a magpie instead. I didn’t do the embroidery you see there, just took the photo of it.
But yes. An Evil Bird by Anna Sykora. I adored this poem from the first moment I read it. It’s really quite fun and the last stanza always makes me smile. It says something about Ms. Sykora’s versatility that she also wrote On Its Own which is a thought-provoking, somewhat melancholy poem which remains one of my personal favourites ever. Ever. Not just of poems we’ve published at Niteblade.
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This post has been written as a part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is ‘Niteblade‘, which is the magazine I publish. I chose this theme to help draw attention to the magazine during this, it’s 2nd annual fundraiser.
My first post in this series was about choosing stories and poems to nominate for awards and I’ve gone through a similar process in deciding what to write about for these posts. Not only did I have to choose stories and poems I loved, but they also had to fit with the A-Z theme. Tricky!
Blogging from A to Z 2013:
A: Award Nominations
B: Brenda Stokes Barron
C: Cato, Beth – The Pacifier
D: December 2011 (Giveaway open until April 30th)
E: Evil Bird
ETA: People seem to be feeling bad for ravens because I said that’s how I imagine the bird in this poem. For the record I love ravens. Love them. I even have nine of them tattooed on my arm. Well, I call it a murder of crows, but crows, ravens… any corvidae has got my heart.
i like your theme & posts so far. a daunting task to put out a regular publication! but exciting as well! i will be noting this on N day =)
Thank you Tara, I’m grateful for every shout out I can get 🙂
I wonder…why is that raven’s are always portrayed as “evil”? I cast my vote in for the turkey vulture. Have you ever seen those things?
LoL I think ravens get a bit of a tough rap because they are all black. Also, the whole crow/raven / murder of crows thing doesn’t help.
Or we could just blame Poe.
Either way, I love ravens and I’m with you about the turkey vulture LOL
I like your choice for an AtoZ series!
Thank you Milo, I figure every little bit of awareness helps, right?
Wonderful example of embroidery in the Magpie piece. Thanks for visiting my Embroidery post for today. Your theme is very interesting and quite a challenge I’d imagine. Great job for the Letter E.
Sue~CollectInTexasGal
AtoZ LoneStar Quilting Bee
I think that magpie is gorgeous. Unfortunately I didn’t stitch it, I just photographed it LOL
It’s funny that ravens now have such a bad rep when they used to be viewed as a good omen.
I too love ravens- I think they’re beautiful and very clever!
Ravens are awesome. I love birds. Birds in general but especially corvidae 🙂
We can probably blame Poe for that 😉