Renée Owen

all the little choices

nights I wander in a land of dreams I hike into dusk fields filled with pools of standing water left over from the only decent rain to fall in these fiery drought-fueled years where swooping towards me at eye level in the shadows a barn owl spreads his ghostly wings and soars into the trees beyond where I too before long will veer off this rutted trail and make my way into the afterworld yet now this looking backward at all I did and didn’t do this looking forward this wondering will life continue hurtling me on or will I slow down and fill my days of longing

in a field
of dried grass
amaryllis belladonna

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About the Author

Renée Owen’s award-winning books include This One Life (Backbone Press), Alone On A Wild Coast (Snapshot Press), and Scent of the Past. . . Imperfect (Two Autumns Press).