Curious Creatures Owls!

Curious creatures, owls!

Quizzical fluting hoot

sharp, yapping, repeating terror in k v quavers

Amber dish eyes of light,

enlarged iris for seeking in dark flight

Puritanical creatures, owls!

Prudish and proper.

Faces shaped like love hearts expressing words of wisdom

Magistrate beaks ready to interrogate

muscle, fat, skin and bone

Imperial creatures, owls!

Reigning over deciduous thicket, declaring sovereignty

Bodies bobbing, jouncing and pouncing

Majestic to mayhem and murder