David Cazden

David Cazden has had work in Passages North, Nimrod, and elsewhere, and most recently in Still: The Journal. His second book of poetry is The Lost Animals (Sundress Publications, 2013). David lives in Danville, Kentucky.

“The Mystic Owl” and “Vines”

At dusk, a barn
owl puts on a riding coat
of gray-white feathers
and mounts a horse of air.
Galloping away,
he brings silent death
to mice and voles
in fields beside our home.
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