terrypetersen

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." ~ Henry Ward Beecher


When Real Can Be Almost Anything

You tape scraps of multicolored paper
to white cardboard. With pink, blue, orange, 
and violet squares you design hair.
A purple crayon creates a squat body.

Outstretched arms wear six fingers on 
one hand and four on the other.
Your signature justifies to the right. You
draw off your canvas and onto paper below.

I smile, pleased by an image too powerful
for a single square of paper,
created by chi too fresh to know its power.
Imagination, the world under control

and capable of change and fun, 
time made of this moment only 
and how it can be turned into play.
Until reality challenges its optimism.