CROW LAUGHED Crow laughed and mocked me He sitting smug in his grandfather tree But I was immune to his cunning I had been taught of the river and sea And the way of the raven and crow Salmon thought to hide in the dark He didn't like the sealions bark He wondered of my fires glow And ringlets left by quiet oars The black bear on the island That old one with the devil's heart The one who knew the crow as well as I Would share the morning star with me Would eat his salmon on a mossy shore While alder smoke prepared us for winter And sassy crow would laugh again Knowing he had more than his fair share Watching fat and naughty from his perch while bear and I washed the salmon's blood that stained our hands. by the Fish Hawk