And Dog Said
In the beginning
God said to Dog,
“Your name is mine
in the mirror
so I grant you
the next creation.”
And Dog said,
“I would like someone
to walk with me.”
So God made Man
with hardly any sense
of smell and just two legs.
And God said to Dog,
“He has only a few words
like come and fetch,
and he knows little
of the earth
and its redolence,
but let him totter along
behind you and learn.”
–David Lee Garrison
David Lee Garrison was the 2014 Ohio Poet of the Year. His work has been featured by Ted Kooser in his column, “American Life in Poetry” and read by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac.” The above poem is included in his most recent book, Light in the River (Don Madres Press), as well as published in Little Black Box: Speculative Poetry in Ohio (Wipf and Stock).
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