Owl Tales Never Told

by Oonah V. Joslin

Keeky owl

is camouflaged on bark.

He’s cool

collected, unimpaired by dark.

He watches,

listens with his radar face.

Heart of the moon,

descends

with devastating grace.

He always knows

whoo’s who, what’s where,

he swoops

and springs to catch prey

unaware;

rats, mice, voles,

anything that hides away

in holes.

He’s versatile. He hunts both day

and night.

He never tells the things he sees.

He’s learned

to be majestic as the trees,

cute as survival,

swift and cold as a midnight breeze.

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Oonah Joslin is poetry editor at The Linnet’s Wings. She has won prizes for both poetry and micro-fiction. Her book Three Pounds of Cells ISBN: 13: 978-1535486491 is available online from Linnet’s Wings Press and you can see and hear Oonah read in this National Trust video. The first part of her novella A Genie in a Jam is serialised at Bewildering Stories, along with a large body of her work (see Bibliography). You can follow Oonah on Facebook or at Parallel Oonahverse https://oovj.wordpress.com/.