This Pandora’s box
is being emptied,
fearful angry ravens
fly out screaming
and my son says
that sounds normal.
And really,
that is how a raven sounds
when it is freed from a trap
that it made for itself
without realizing,
so it screams with some shame
and bravado in flight
and then there is an echo of raucous noise
and then there is an empty box
with no lid.