Little Crow was created in December of 2010.  Its inspiration came from a poem that the artist wrote with the same title.  A hard copy of the poem is embedded within the painting, and it is below.    

Little black bird, where have you been?

I’ve been above the treetops, mankind observing

Little black bird, what did you see?

A creature with a black heart that needs awakening

Little black crow, you are a mystery

I’m not a portent of death, but I am not snow white

It was no god that colored me black

But a man projecting his emptiness inside

He’s a man unaware of his dying

He has blinded himself; himself he is justifying

He has no heart; he seeks his own selfish longing

He tried to clip my wings

Little black bird, what else have you seen?

The trees are bleeding, and upon them the birds are feeding

The trees are leaking, and upon them the flowers are feeding

My spirit of vengeance is grounded in amending

No spirit of evil will prolong to squelch the spirit of the good

Little black bird, what are you saying?

I am a beautiful, little bird; my maker is godly

He allows me to see what I have seen

He allows me to fly and to be free

He hears my disquieting thoughts

He knows what I have felt, how I bleed

He will soon rectify; he will soon remedy

I am a little, black bird; a creature gifted

It is for nothing that the net is spread before me

I am a bird; I have wings.