“Neither Speech nor Silence”

Click here to read “Neither Speech nor Silence” by James Owens.

James Owens is the author of An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press 2007) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press 2007). His poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Superstition Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and The Stinging Fly. He received an MFA from the University of Alabama and edited The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review from 2000 to 2003. He lives in Wabash, Indiana, and Massey, Ontario, and blogs at ein klage-himmel.