Blue Hole

Alice falls in blue hole dizziness, bedraggled in white-smocked dress, bloomers, too-high knee socks, medusa-spread of dirty-blond hair. Her nastiness hovers around the royal-red throne with its pink-flamingo- legs distress, playing cards floating in 52-card pickup, white rose with a heart — indicative of not love, but trouble to come. wide-eyed Alice, her tea-water splash — wings of a Summer-hot butterfly. Hatter, his static-hair sticks out of his evergreen hat — upside-down leprechaun. time, too, hangs like bats ...a child, a girl child, inclined to be trouble. This Alice ruffles Queen’s undergarments. Teeny-tiny rabbit, barely a tic-toc, scurries under the floating bush. time plays tricks. thrice-appears — third time, he’s very late, indeed. The Cheshire’s visibles, gleaming white, polished as if smiling Sunday shoes, can’t-help-himself grinning around that impetuous girl, who was swallowed whole by Wonderland. Alice’s world will turn upside- down, with the hookah lounge’s increased smoke. Quite high— creepy caterpillar caterwauls at the idea of a human wriggling around its world. Blue hole dizziness, this world of dreams, an escape from reality, a nightmare it seems. There will be giant and teeny-tiny doors, and potions to explore. She’s much too young. This is out of character for a young lady. Out of sight and mind...mindless fun and mayhem, a child plays her luck. Alice has lost her way. She grows down...down...down. Her head above the clouds, likely to lose it. 5/28/2021 Contest: Blue Hole Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco *Loosely based on characters from Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland