Poems

Domesticity

By Lindsay Turner

June 22, 2026

The owls weren’t in distress, although
I thought they sounded like it, calling out so much
in daylight. Barred owls:
Who cooks for you? is how you write the call,
I looked it up.
They were so close it sounded like they were in the house,
like six owls just went off at once out there, you said.
A false spring.
The daffodils were almost blown,
snow was on the way.
Left to desire, we did.

Published in the print edition of the June 29, 2026, issue.

Lindsay Turner is the author of “Middle Slope,” her third book of poems (October, 2026).