Tag: barn owl

• Barn Owl

  

  In Egypt they made you a hieroglyph – no wonder. For you are silent in flight as night pressing on the Nile; and when milky feathers part to show your clandestine mouth, the small shivering prey vanishes into you as quickly, as irrevocably, as a murdered pharaoh, hustled by his vizier to oblivion somewhere in…

  trkeith

  March 25, 2023

  Secular Verse

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