Awaking Owl

AWAKING OWL Dazzled by daylight, bewildered by sun, sensation has raveled what intellect spun. Once he shuttered his eyes from day, turned inward his sight; from light turned away, refused to acknowledge the sun could exist, and set himselfup as the night's analyst, pursuing with reason night's mouse, reason's thought, digesting in daylight the prey he had caught. But now the branch he sits on shakes; drowning in color he blinks and wakes. Odd in this light are his aerial trails, full-tilt into a tree he sails and battered flops offthrough the wood, the keen analytical night's keen lord. Dazzled by daylight dissolving the mind— sensation has driven the intellect blind. —J. R. P. 442 J. R. P. · Awaking Owl Perspectives in Biology and Medicine · Summer 1959 ...