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Where Pigeons Rest
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He is riding up and down freeway off-ramps. Lights blinking, signaling turns, lights changing red, yellow, and green. Cans clanking as he crosses the street, the sight and sound of him disappearing down the sidewalk through a blur of passing cars briefly seen from under the bridge where pigeons rest.
Most people never stop long enough to notice the lives happening beside them.
Where Pigeons Rest is a deeply human collection of poetry focused on the overlooked corners of everyday existence: freeway underpasses, sidewalks, late-night streets, forgotten people, and quiet acts of survival. Through vivid observation and restrained emotional clarity, A. W. Owens writes about those living on the edges of visibility, revealing the dignity, loneliness, beauty, and pain often hidden beneath ordinary moments.
These poems do not look away. They sit beside the forgotten and ask the reader to do the same.
Compassionate, haunting, and grounded in lived reality, Where Pigeons Rest becomes a portrait of the humanity we pass every day without truly seeing.
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