#154 Kevin Brophy 'Origami'

#154 ‘Origami’

They abandon the origami frogs,

green, blue and pink, for those new

kinds of origami paper planes

to shoot at crows and dogs and roofs.

Not frightened enough by the future,

not even by the future that’s behind them,

not rattled enough by the road out of here,  

the children somehow do come back

each morning when the siren goes

and the day strolls out with its pockets full of prizes.