This poem is Poem of the Month in Earth's Daughters magazine.

Flight

She begs him not to let the bird go.
A house bird, a cage bird
a little dew-grass green bird.
The wild birds will kill it.
All the while she argues
the child finds an oblong leaf
makes it swoop and soar
and sails beneath it.
And the child, the leaf
and the yellow-dawn bird
vanish into the sky.

--Laura Quinn Guidry