A tiny gold plastic key
small as a thumbnail
lay under a lightpost
in a bookstore parking lot.
My grandson found it,
examined it,
wondered what it might unlock.
A fairy’s door?
A toad’s treasure chest?
A bird’s garden gate?
Maybe.
One thing for sure:
it unlocked
his imagination.

-kh-

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