“Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles Are Cracked and Crooked” by John Updike

“Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles Are Cracked and Crooked” by John Updike 🇺🇸 (18 Mar 1932 – 27 Jan 2009)

The old men say

young men in gray

hung this thread across our plains

acres and acres ago.

But we, the enlightened, know

in point of fact it’s what remains

of the flight of a marvellous crow

no one saw:

Each pole, a caw.