Alice looking through the window

Alice looking through the glass

Alice smiles away her fears

Alice is in wonderland

Alice is a wonderland ~

Alice has the sun for her eyes

The stars become singing birds around her

The trees waltz in sheer ecstasy

The pebbles and the river in a choir

The lilies and lotuses sing lullaby

Lulling spectral butterflies to lazy dreams

Alice has the moon for her mirror-mind

Seasons twilight and dawn bloom in her

The ageless ages and the ageing aeons

Flutter gently her lyric eyelashes ~

Liquid grace divines her sacred dance

Flowing through floral spaces of pure delight ~

She is ether ether eternal ether

Alice, the forgotten innocence

In Eve’s ageless miracle being ~

The Apocalypse resolved on the earth ~

The singular signs of primal perfections

Revealed in her strange rhythms ~

The last hells of fetid squalor

Absorbed absolved in the radiance

Of her primordial purity ~ Alice ~

Alice looking through the window

Alice looking through the glass

Alice smiles away her fears

Alice is in wonderland

Alice is a wonderland ~

circa 1987

Note ~

I have not so far read Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland” so far, because cosmic serendipity did not let it happen ~ But I had vague ideas about what it is from hearsay ~ This poem is inspired by an unknown girl ~ I named her Alice ~ Those who have read “Alice In Wonderland” will surely give it a different subjective reading ~ Deconstruct it differently with a different sensorium if I may say so ~ The text naturally invites multiple readings beyond the author ~