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Celeste's avatar

comparing crows and angelfish--brilliant!

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Laura Pilnick's avatar

Great imagery

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Mario Fonseca's avatar

Crows are black, we don't need to see them, but angelfish come in many colours. I would think you looked for a picture of a black angelfish to contribute to the leap in the poem. It reaffirms it without redundancy. Brilliant – without redundancy. Glub glub.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

True and true. Thank you. Glub to you.

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Janie Braverman's avatar

Beautiful work, X.P.

Now I'll have to start looking for angelfish on the sidewalks ...

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

They're everywhere!

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Janie Braverman's avatar

Not as rare as Kewpies!

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Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

Crows to dragons to angelfish, what an imagination

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

I write what I see. ; )

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Paul Wittenberger's avatar

I think crows are wonderful!

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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

I love this, the movement of it, the rich spareness.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Thanks, LeeAnn.

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