Gratitude by Diane Klammer

[33 words]

"When the owl sings, the night is silent." Charles Leusse

As
I 
Run
In
An
Open
Field
A
Silent
Shadow
Covers 
Me
as                                    I am grateful not to be a mouse.
A
Great
Horned
Owl
Flies
Overhead
Erasing
Me
With 
His
Giant
Wingspan


Diane Klammer is a disabled writer, singer-songwriter, retired therapist, and biology teacher. Her work has appeared in the United States and Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, and Australia. She has appeared in Lummox, Avocet, Open Earth Eco Poems, Rattle, Spaces, Syncopation Review and Missing Slate. She strives to write from a place of humor and compassion and is grateful for diverse voices of poetry in books music and film. Her third book will come out this year; Nonlinear Healing from Finishing Line Press.

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