Back. Back to that long-ago place<\/p>\n
One. More. Time.<\/p>\n
But unlike Dorothy,<\/p>\n
The fanciest shoes I own<\/p>\n
Cannot take me there.<\/p>\n
Their clicks are mute.<\/p>\n
Moot.<\/p>\n
Moo—t.<\/p>\n
Like cows who never come home to rest.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And in my imaginings\u2014<\/p>\n
Be they wakeful or beyond\u2014<\/p>\n
No warmth can match Grandma\u2019s arms,<\/p>\n
Holding me when I hurt,<\/p>\n
When life crowds too close.<\/p>\n
Can enfold me.<\/p>\n
Hold me.<\/p>\n
Rabbit Hole for me.<\/p>\n
Like Alice and her looking glass.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That mirage, of what once was,<\/p>\n
Wavers in the distant fog,<\/p>\n
Tempts me close out sanity;<\/p>\n
And walk the corridor<\/p>\n
To a place where change is coin at best.<\/p>\n
Second star to the right,<\/p>\n
Through the night,<\/p>\n
One-way flight.<\/p>\n
To Neverland and Peter Pan and what was\u2014but is no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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