Somehow the spectacle

At slow sun-setting peach and pearl o’clock
Shadow-puppet crows are grouping
All together, rise
And flap and flap, make tree-top tour
Then settle caw and mock
Raucous racket
Evening ritual all the corvine crew
Extended family, it’s expected
Flock
Imperceptible the hour, the signal
Who saw or spoke of dusk?
Somehow the spectacle
At slow sun-setting peach and pearl o’clock

15th January 2012 RUHSA campus K V Kuppam, S India