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.

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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