The Crow

By Craig Sipe

The Crow
A Movie from 1994

Brandon Lee was Eric Draven on Devil’s Night
in 1994 when I flew my first mission.

Infernos blazed, murders, sacks on Devil’s Night,}
where Lee was accidentally shot . . . shot dead

on set at 28, Brandon’s dad, Bruce, Green Hornet’s
Kato in 1966 also croaked into a nebulous bye,

nefarious like Brandon’s Crow rising
to cult classic status over the years.

A “classic” is a term interchangeable with other
movie words such as “sequel,” or “reboot”

while a “cult” refers to a group of folks having
practices or beliefs regarded in the norm

as far wings of either pitch, somehow
strange like the preposition

of a Crow

un–earthing souls wrongly
done to exact revenge

upon their own dagger-magnets. Can you
imagine me, as a pissed — knifed drone

with my pearled eyes pearled on you —

a crow’s eye — my crows beak picking
the mysteries from your ears

balled–up in your grey matter wax, and

finding my caw–caw sortie way
to home upon your sill, then soaring

my own cursed, immortal course
back to un–rest, a sated soul,

for now, returned to a grave peace
for love, and ill? So, yes,

Hell . . . I’m in.