Strangers’ eyes

See the strangest

Things. 

Because they are 

Always, again,

Children.

What they lack

In depth

They will fill

With wonder,

Distance they wish

To banish with awe,

And thus they 

Plunge innocent

Into the ocean

Of the unfamiliar,

Where they become

Islands.

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(May 26, 2007)

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