What Rough Beast | Poem for March 16, 2017

Wendy Taylor Carlisle Strigidae …the nights were soft / With owls —Robert Hass With what inner need do we forget the hawk-beak, meat-hunger of a reclusive rusty lover? Why favor instead the seductive call, the whoo and oooh of owl hymn, the logic of silent flight and heavy feather? Why delight in fixed hoop-eye and swivel […]