"Dear Owl" — Eugene Ostashevsky

Dear Owl
you have big eyes

feathers that stick up in all different directions
you wake up

your panties are funny
You here

the sounds words make
as they plead for life

that's all that remains
of the language of language

O Owl
among leaves

what is this forest
of "letters," black light

of unintelligible suns
I cannot see

who I am
who you are

the difference between good and evil
the end of human desire

how to tell the truth
and why

Is this my life
Are you in it