The dark night (2)

Dave BontaContemplative

What are you listening for, who already know everything I have to say? You are nothing but a tourist of the night. What appears empty to you is in fact a fully inhabited tenement. Your inscrutable fruit is far more pungent than you can know, who do not risk becoming someone else’s morsel. Who cooks for you?

Response to last night’s post. (In bird guides, the barred owl’s call is usually described as sounding like “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?”)

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