BIRDS
THIS PRINT HAS SOLD OUT
A 4-color reduction linocut
5" x 5" print size
7" x 7" paper size
Hand printed on BFK Rives paper
Edition: 10
Sold unframed
Price includes shipping within the U.S.
A copy of the poem will come with the print.
SAW-WHET OWL
Aegolius acadicus
So small he makes two meals
of a field mouse, yet his
beeeep
beeeep
beeeep
like an 18-wheeler backing up
carries for half a mile.
Once I heard one call
from a cabin on the coast
and it sounded like the hiss
of a radiator releasing steam
only the cabin had no radiator
no electricity
no running water
only candles and kerosene lamps
rain barrels under downspouts
an outhouse
and a tiny saw-whet owl saying
tssssssst
tssssssst
tssssssst
from a white pine
in response to her mate.
Leslie Moore
SPIRE: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability
2023, Issue 7