<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Barn Owl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In late summer<br>I feel the chill again<br>the first marauding<br>from the high plateau</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can sense the teeth in everything<br>and claws under rock and ti-tree<br>biting down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the dry sand of the creekbed<br>I find the skeleton of a barn owl<br>and snap off its skull<br>with a twist of my thumb and forefinger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I string it<br>with a length of fishing-line<br>and for days<br>I wear it around my neck<br>dreaming at night<br>of the crack of lizard-bones<br>the death-cries of small marsupials</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the hard beak<br>as I work<br>knocking against my chest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the great, absent eyes<br>as I sleep<br>watching from eucalpyts <br>or waiting in dark rafters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Brooks">David Brooks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575344" data-title="The Barn Owl de David Brooks" data-description="In late summer I feel the chill again the first marauding from the high plateau I can sense the teeth in everything and claws under rock and ti-tree biting down in the dry sand of the creekbed I find the skeleton of a barn owl and snap off its s..."></div> </div> </div>

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