Owls   Has something gone wrong, or is it these glasses? You seem so different, lost in your blazing bush, but it’s true — the luminous gas   becomes you. Are these ideas, or just memes? And that poncho you wear, you’ll never pass muster with the doctor who prescribes creams   and lotions for your broken wings — “A phase, that’s all, just a phase,” she says, but it seems like everything’s coming up owls these days.     © Michael Fleming Putney, Vermont March 2019