A. R. Zarif
It was a box with a dead owl in it
one silence folded
into another pulling
the lid open to find
a dead owl bent
into a box. Its life
was changing slowly.
Evan still won’t let me
take a picture.
A. R. Zarif reads “It was a box with a dead owl in it”
A. R. Zarif is from Chicago and his work has been published in Ninth Letter, Image, Bennington Review, The Offing, Washington Square Review, and others. He holds an MFA from Brown University is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Virginia. He can be found online at arzarif.com.