Crow’s Theology
Crow realized God loved him- Otherwise, he would have dropped dead. So that was proved. Crow reclined, marvelling, on his heart-beat. And he realized that God spoke Crow- Just existing was His revelation. But what Loved the stones and spoke stone? They seemed to exist too. And what spoke that strange silence After his clamour of caws faded? And what loved the shot-pellets That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows? What spoke the silence of lead? Crow realized there were two Gods- One of them much bigger than the other Loving his enemies And having all the weapons.
Crow’s Theology - meaning Summary
Faith Confronted by Violence
Crow's Theology presents Crow trying to reason from his own survival toward belief in a loving God. His questions quickly widen to stones, silence, dead crows, and lead shot: things apparently untouched by that love. The poem ends with a bleak theological division between a smaller God who loves enemies and a greater power associated with weapons, violence, and death.
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