Preface to the Theory of Dreams by James Owens




The storm honed its knives on the horizon.
Lightning hacked the clouds,

gutted our sky.
Now we go out into a scrubbed evening

where the old moon
drops a new shine on the canal.

This world is almost real
like the other. Think:

shards glitter on the banks,
drains whisper to their rats.

 


JAMES OWENS lives in Northport, Alabama, where he is the editor of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Adirondack Review, Now & Then, Wind, and The Pedestal.

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