DENNIS MALONEY

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 ISSUE #02 POET

Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations, Just Enough, and Listening to Tao Yuan Ming. A bilingual German/English volume, Empty Cup, was published in Germany in 2017. Recent collections include The Things I Notice Now and The Faces of Guan Yin.

IN THOSE QUIET MOMENTS

In those quiet moments

of silence you hear

the voice of the owl 

in the distance,

and other bird songs float 

in the air as the sun sets.

The rustle of a pair of deer

on the slope below,

the eyes of the bobcat 

shine as he turns and 

disappears in the dusk.