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Colleen Abel is a former Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Southern Review, West Branch, Notre Dame Review, Mid-American Review, Rhino, Cimarron Review, The Journal, The Pinch and others. She is Poetry Editor at cream city review in Milwaukee.
WONDERLAND
Forget what you’ve heard:
I tumbled after no one.
That was a calculated leap
into the space before voices
droned like fighter jets
against a sky so blue it pained me.
I caught the rabbit—they got that
wrong, too—caught him in my hands
and shocked my tender fingers
with the spark of his terrified pulse.
Yes, I held him, I held him and I let him go,
then stepped into the dark, blowing grass
into the blooming world.
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