6/17/10

How to Fly
By J.S. Cohen


I found her lying in the grit and yellow flowers by the side of the road. Babies danced in her eyes, the patterns in her dress. Overhead, clouds hung heavy, fertile with rain.

The baby wasn’t mine, but I took her home with me anyway, built her a nest.

Together, we taught the little dove how to fly.


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Cohen works with dogs in Southern California.