The Hamlet Project

Celia says this, too, but she keeps going to make it
Most wonderful and yet again wonderful.
It must have, at one time, been a sincere exclamation.
Now, we see “O, wonderful” and assume it’s sarcastic
Particularly in the mouths of teenagers. “O, great”
Could go this way too, if we’re not careful.
But then, if I punctuate it: O! Wonderful!
I somehow get the wonder back.
Wondering being something so full, so basic, it feels
Like a gift to remember what it’s like to wonder.
There are few things that spark true wonder
After a certain age. One of the great gifts of children
Is the tremendous surprise that everything in the world is –
A field, a truck, a horse, a constellation, a bone,
A library, a train, a sticker, an eggbeater.