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 Atlanta Review, The Shore, The Windhover, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.

James Owens

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Just Before Thinking of You

Outside with bare feet, the stones cold.
Crows argue somewhere.
Beside a stone, one dandelion, downy and intact,
even now, after wind has stripped so many branches.