To Think!
A poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
To think I once saw grocery shops
With but a casual eye
And fingered figs and apricots
As one who came to buy.
To think I never dreamed of how
Bananas sway in rain
And often looked at oranges
And never thought of Spain.
And in those wasted days I saw
No sails above the tea,
For grocery shops were grocery shops –
Not hemispheres to me.
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It’s not what you look at…its what you see.