<i><b>Wicked Alice Poetry Journal

wicked alice| fifth anniversary issue



Maggie Glover

Imperial Palace Alice

                          "How fond she is of finding morals in things!"-- Lewis Carroll

She snaps her plumcake mouth,
crosses two yard pegs at the ankle:

Honey, it's not what you drink,
but how you pour it!

Somewhere between wool and water
(handkerchief skirt, these blue bow tights),

pudding and queens scatter over
she lays her hand all in.



Maggie Glover is currently working on her MFA at West Virginia University. She has poems forthcoming in the Pebble Lake Review.