Caged Owl by Orr Gregory;

Author:Orr, Gregory;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

There aren’t that many pages left.

I’m getting nervous: What if

the author means to surprise me

by leaving the last twenty blank?

Now all sounds disturb me:

embers letting fall on the hearth

their heavy gray petals;

cattle outside, tearing the grass

with their teeth; and close by,

the screech of the luminous

insect trapped in the lightbulb.

The Caged Owl

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Cage wires white like ribs

in my flashlight’s glare.

Inside the heart lives on,

dark and feathered.

Swallowing small things

whole, it spits up

what it can’t digest:

pellets of fur and bone.

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