Sandbox

The world of man shrinks to a sandbox

in the global world of children,

a four foot universe of sand

marked off by pine-board boundaries

squared smartly at the corners,

or even a new plastic one, turtle-shaped and round;

what’s important is the sand and what you have,

all that you need: a new plastic bucket

and an old bent spoon, a round yellow sieve

to sift the sands together, bright colored tools

scaled down to smaller hands and simpler minds

that can create their own worlds

out of tiny grains held together by innocence.