“Owls” by Liza Katz Duncan (poetry ’22)
Poetry alumn Liza Katz Duncan was recently featured in Poetry Magazine. Read an excerpt from “Owls” and find a link to the full text below:
Owls
And maybe this is all we get: a chilly evening,
5:30 and the sun should still be out. Instead October’s
Full Blood Moon has come and gone
over the hospital parking lot. The crickets’ warning song
has already begun. My body, we’ve learned, has forgotten again
what to carry and what
to discard, like those owl pellets we dissected in the fourth grade:
here the jaw, there the shoulder blade of some smaller creature.
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