Dan Gerber is the author of more than a dozen books, including fiction, essays, memoir, and poetry, including The End of Michelangelo; A Primer on Parallel Lives; Sailing through Cassiopeia, winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry; and Particles. He has received the Michigan Author Award and the Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature and has had work included in Best American Poetry. Gerber lives with his wife, Debbie, in the mountains of Central California.

Arriving

by Dan Gerber

to Jim Harrison


We woke, as we often did those mornings,
to a great horned owl whoing down the chimney,

then out with the dogs, found myself
absorbed in a network of late-shift owls


finishing their night’s work, broadcasting
their locations and perhaps their intentions too,


in the mysterious daylight world of the nocturnal.
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