Eschaton
These summer evenings of low clouds and heat,
The lake goes milky in the last minutes before sunset,
Light clinging to the waves as the Earth darkens.
If other worlds are coming, Lord, bring them slowly..
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 Christianity & Literature, Relief, and The Windhover. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario, Canada. He sometimes teaches writing at Laurentian University.
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