Neighborhood Owl

Neighborhood Owl

“There’s an owl in the neighborhood. I heard him late last night

When the wind was wild and restless and the moon was round and white.

I hurried to my window but nothing I could see

Showed anyone in all the town had wakened–only me.

Owls live in the forest where trees are dark and tall

But I am sure that late last night I heard a night owl’s call.

                                                                                                                      –Blanche Day Manos