Tonya's Nagual Raven (Image courtesy Montana Public Radio)
The soaring raven's monitory croak
Is painfully precise, exact, specific,
Yet utterly beyond interpretation;
Gnomic, but set apart from human meaning.
One's only recourse, then, is to note
carefully
The direction of its flight
And to interpret that as ominous,
Auspicious or ambiguous.
— J. Jeffrey Bragg (23 January 2020)
