James Owens's newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in The Christian Century, Dappled Things, and Vita Poetica. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.
A poem by James Owens
This stone on the desk is inaccessible in its rare innards, though fist-shaped and polished by years’ employment in meditation, an idle hand grasping it to rub and shine, as a mind strokes History or notions of Being. Its cool skin never returns the answer to any question, not to the fingers that try its […]
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