Thursday, February 16, 2006

34/365 Alice

Tall, young and lovely, Alice casts out a thousand questions--each baited to hook the same answer: Yes, you’re pretty. As her companions tire of continually gushing, their half-hearted affirmations stir more doubt than if she’d simply caught her own reflection in the stream.

2 Comments:

Blogger Mary said...

this is great poetry

8:21 PM  
Blogger ntexas99 said...

every line leading to the next, and all telling the story perfectly ... this was one of those times when the words couldn't have fallen together in any other order ... loved it

12:48 AM  

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