Storied Legends

Freeing a child's mind to
explore an internal landscape
of the imagination through
chance encounters with the
great, wide world beckoning
a child's curiosity to explore,
experience, exult in the arcana
of little-understood phenomena,
natural and abnormal, expands
the mind leading to creative
interpretations of the ordinary,
transforming its landscape
and inhabitants beyond
recognition, imbuing both
with mystery, and the allure of
fascination. And then, sometimes
comes along a mind that wanders
strange corridors of compulsive
rejection of reality named
normalcy, introducing trusting
children to the entertainment of
the bizarre refuting the standard,
embracing cool madness. A
genius mired in the making of a
legend dropped a little girl,
bright and enquiring, into a
storied rabbit hole writing her
into an adventure bearing odd
resemblance to the chaos of his
mind echoing the blithe and
lively nightmare of living lunacy.
Evermore, did adults thrust upon
children the Alice of Wonderland,
inviting them to witness in their
waking dreams the troubling
vision of something not quite
nice, not quite comfortable,
leering at them through the mirror
in darkly sinister malevolence.