Thomas Dukes Quotes

I walk the beach to smile at other people
and their busy children, trying to find
another way to save the world.

Now I stand before houses set
on our secret trail, the haunt of arrowheads
and lost Indians the color of small plums,
rooms in which the new boys play, tamed
by computers and a summer waste of games,
where once, in these woods, we tasted wild fruit.