We know them as crows
But they may be ravens
I wonder how they know themselves
How does one say
I
In their avian language?
What tone of CAW suffices?
Perhaps it is all in the strut
The cock of the head
Body language anthropomorphised
To be intelligible to humans.
Perhaps they aren’t saying
I
At all
But mine -
Your breakfast
This space
The world
Mine
In exchange for that bagel