Day 13 of MyNaPoWriMo (write a poem a day for a month)

Nov 14, 2011 | Magazine Vol. 1

The white queen

Caroling through the mall, 
we come across the costume 

store and see through the glass
darkly that it is lost 

in a children’s book, all rabbits 
in waistcoats and watch fobs.

We find the chess board, life-sized 
and in cool marble; hear her 

looking for her daughter, 
and counting the hours 

backward toward yesterday, 
complaining of bespectacled

sheep, the red queen
and turning into a porcupine.

Was at the airport book store and they had a section on Alice in Wonderland....

1 Comment

  1. Jen Dracos-Tice

    i love the image of “caroling through the mall”…all the possibilities for “caroling” (including the commercial one)

    the linebreak of “through the glass/darkly” gave me the chills

    i love the turn in the second line of the fourth stanza…from the “we” browsing through the mall to the “we” of the “her” looking for her “daughter” (i felt like i’d just slipped down that hole once I’d crossed over that semi-colon)

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