Garden Owl by Jarod Gravelin (’21)
January 7, 2021
Please.
Please?
Please!
The fluffy one
with talons
Sharp.
Eyes soft.
We can have
the small
green, blue
stare,
condescending
What-do-you-want?
The less-fluffy one,
she said,
or I heard.
Great Owl,
protector of
Fantasy,
you would not
be mine
but together
we’d be
defenders of the garden
of the fruit serpents
and tomato vines.
I won’t ever
cry again!
She didn’t understand,
a small friend
we have, instead,
still fluffy,
kinda cute
This will do.