Sleeping Barn Owl Earrings crow – Christopher Poindexter

– Christopher Poindexter

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younger protégées) as well as being a fearsome protector of anyone vulnerable to the destructive power of an inhumane authority (the boss

Jezanna (Central African) - Goddess of the moon and healing

Sleeping Barn Owl Earrings crow – Christopher PoindexterTHE BARN OWL 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 skull with a twist of my thumb and forefinger I string it with a length of fishing line and for days I wear it around my neck dreaming at night of the crack of lizard bones the death cries of small