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A Barred Owl -- Richard Wilbur

Guest poem sent in by an anonymous member:
(Poem #1844) A Barred Owl
 The warping night-air having brought the boom
 Of an owl's voice into her darkened room,
 We tell the wakened child that all she heard
 Was an odd question from a forest bird,
 Asking of us, if rightly listened to,
 "Who cooks for you?" and then "Who cooks for you?"

 Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear,
 Can also thus domesticate a fear,
 And send a small child back to sleep at night
 Not listening for the sound of stealthy flight
 Or dreaming of some small thing in a claw
 Borne up to some dark branch and eaten raw.
-- Richard Wilbur
As the parent of a young child myself, it is easy for me to relate to what
the poet calls the easy "domestication of fear" . It is probably the eternal
conundrum of the parent, treading the line between a desire to protect and
the truth.  Richard Wilbur has a stark sense of the violence that lurks in
the mundane. The last line sends chills up my spine.

[Links]

There is an excellent recording of the poet reading the "Barred Owl"
at The Poetry Archive:
  http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1672

Previous Wilbur Poems on Minstrels (with biography):
  http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1116.html

Wikipedia entry:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur

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