Wonderland Revisited Poem by Jacob Coleman

My thoughts hover like bees over the dry lawn. May’s final breath makes the yellow-green grass quiver. I whisper condolences to Abe who wishes his copper-face could yawn. An aphid crawls across his nose on an inch long journey to reach an island of clover. To think that an entire world’s Odyssey can pass by unnoticed...This universe where footsteps and falling leaves leave their recording time, and prove yesterday and tomorrow are today reflected. I look up into the sky, “Is this how the cosmic poet spells out his eternal rhyme? ” I smile and let go of everthing but everything, tumbling (not for the first time) down the busy rabbit hole of thought, dancing with Alice in the empty, dancing air of childhood memories, and wondering (truly wondering) how it was I forgot (THIS, the holy-desperate-needfulness of Now) .