Juliana Norwood’s most recent poem to appear here was Over the River (December 2013).
Child Thought
By Juliana Norwood
The difference between
believing you are a polka dot person
and not a freckle face
a code reader
instead of a dyslexic, Tinkerbelle’s sister
not short stuff
an unrecognized princess
instead of a homeless daughter, an aloof cat
not a friendless child
is whether we fall on this side or that
of the border of the age of wonder.
Nice, simple, to the point. Each of us might fill in that last line differently . . .