wishing fairy tales were reality
reading fairy tales by brothers Grimm
and Hans Anderson and folk stories
delighted by the imagination creating
people out of animals and objects
anthropomorphism has a way
of capturing our own delight
of wishing there were tiny people
to inhabit childhood world to be
our friends and explain what we
cannot understand about adults
and how to fit into their strange world
questions I’d still like to be answered
lo, these many years living
among grown-ups