The People of the Palm

By Dan Hagen

They are the ghosts of the future.
They drift down the sidewalks like phantoms, 
half there
and half somewhere else unknown,
their gaze averted ever downward,
as if afraid to meet
the eyes of the world.
They are new,
the true citizens of the 21st century.
The people of the palm,
holding wonders and horrors there.