Do you remember When we used to walk out from the light, into the freezing midnight fog? Blinded Shivering Acorns crunching under our feet until we took position Stood still Held our breath Trying to be as silent as the thick dark Wearing the dark like velvet earmuffs We listened keenly through velvet for the hooting of an owl and his mate soaring over the forest Calling back and forth Close, then down by the river, then here again over our heads You told me all about their wings The powerful silence of their predatory flight That maybe right […]
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