Before
the Mid-Term Elections
by
James Owens
Tonight
the wind comes hard.
A
rainstorm scours the yard
of
summer's last leaves
and
beats about the eaves
with
force to loosen boards.
It
warns in booming discords
that
children sleeping warm
huddle
near such harm
as
is past all power to mend.
Beneath
the burly wind,
I
darken thought and watch,
as
weather tries the latch.
James
Owens's
most recent collection of poems is Mortalia
(FutureCycle
Press, 2015). His poems and translations appear widely in literary
journals, including recent publications in The Fourth River, Waxwing,
Adirondack Review, Tule Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and
Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in
Wabash, Indiana, and northern Ontario.