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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (2299)1/19/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: flickerful  Respond to of 13015
 
September moon

Pandemonium of owls
flying from east to west and
west to east, over the full moon sea of
mown grass.
The low-voiced
and the wailing high-voiced
hooting together, neither in dialogue
nor in unison,
an overlapping
antiphonal a fox
barks to,
as if to excel, whose obligato
the owls ignore.
They raise
the roof of the dark; ferocious
their joy in the extreme silver
the moon has floated out from itself,
luminous air in which their eyes
don't hurt or close,
the night of the year
their incantations have raised . . . and if
foxes believe it's theirs, there's enough to slip
over and round them, earthlings, of owlish fire.

~ Denise Levertov ~