Alice,
Reinvented
by
Mary Sexson
The
buzz of technology chimes in my sunroom tonight, lines
sizzle
and connect me across the continents. India lies open
on
my desktop, a portal to your world, and I am Alice, falling
through
a new-fangled looking glass,
an
open door to your day already lived,
into
your stories and songs already slightly warped
through
this odd wrinkle in time.
Mary Sexson is the author of 103 in the Light, Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Restoration Press), nominated for a Best Books of Indiana award in 2005, and co-author of Company of Women, New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press). Her poems have appeared in the Flying Island, Borders Insight Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Grasslands Review, New Verse News, and others, and in several anthologies, including The Globetrotter’s Companion (UK, 2011),Trip of a Lifetime (2012), Reckless Writing (2013), A Few Good Words (2013), The Best of Flying Island (2015), and most recently Words and Other Wild Things (2016). She has upcoming work in HoosierLit Literary Magazine (May 2017).