Crow's Last Stand

Crow's Last Stand
 
Burning
burning
burning
there was finally something
The sun could not burn, that it had rendered
Everything down to--a final obstacle
Against which it raged and charred
 
And rages and chars
 
Limpid among the glaring furnace clinkers
The pulsing blue tongues and the red and the yellow
The green lickings of the conflaguration
 
Limpid and black--
 
Crow's eye-pupil, in the tower of its scorched fort.
 
Ted Hughes