You do not have to drown for this. You do not have to be a Shanghai tycoon dangling your pale feet in a celadon
But for the owl’s persistent question, issuing now and then from a nearby spruce in the darkness and falling snow, I would think that
Daryl Jones lives in Boise, Idaho. His poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Idaho Review, The Sewanee Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. His