Crow girl was to represent the 1950s. The children decided she had wooden hollow legs. She was a thief who hid stolen loot in her legs. No one ever dared ask about her childhood. Matt Black wrote two poems about her, on the same theme; both paints her as a lonely girl with a tragic past, I find the first below the saddest.
She is located near the Railway path.
Crow-girl
By Matt Black (https://www.matt-black.co.uk)
likes storms
and lives in the bell-tower
with blackout eyes
and devil’s legs.
Her slim figure, disguised by baggy clothes
with pocket space for stolen goodies.
The villagers think she’s a witch
so she goes to the village in disguise
and dreams of being popular.
Her Mum and Dad died when she was young.
Now she is centuries old.
Crow-Girl
By Matt Black (https://www.matt-black.co.uk)
crouches like a cat
moves like a shadow,
looks out over the fields,
lonely as Billy Todd.
With her blackout eyes,s
he lives in St. Thomas’s belltowers,
eats spiders,
visits the village in disguise.
She enjoys scaring crows.
Don’t ask about her childhood!
She dreams of swimming pool
sand being normal.
