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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #952777

Lions have prides, owls, have parliaments

A parliament of owls,
their aristocratic feathers
freshly starched,
hold unblinking council;
waxing philosophic
on the merits of a field mouse
peering from behind Athena's shield.
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