On Waking to Hear an Owl
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1 min readMar 5, 2020
What wakes me in the middle
of my dreams
as the still hours of darkness
seem to swell
in metered silence
and sotto voce screams
begging the question:
can all be well?
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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.