The outline of the owl

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eye to the lense 
landscape fades irrelevant 
at your obsidian eyes to mine,

a dusk-white, glass wild moment;

like you waited,

stone serious
for me to carry
that heavy look away. 


C. LJ Ireton, 2026

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