Outside in the predawn darkness
Two owls, great horned, are hooting
in close conversation
having finished hunting, they traveled
a familiar flightpath to our neighborhood
and turn themselves to another
sort of hunger, of coursing blood
and ancient sustaining need
and whatever lives in an owl's heart
- Lisa Periale Martin
Lisa Periale Martin is a poet, former farmworker, and archivist. Her writing is steeped in the wonder of the Sonoran Southwest. Tiny Seed, Plants & Poetry Journal, and RockPaperPoem have published her work. Chax Press published her chapbook, Collectives of Poets: From Ambush to Zooming Zeal.
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