One page, carefully chosen

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice sits beside her sister with nothing much to do, wavering between sleepiness and the small practical pleasure of making a daisy-chain. Then a White Rabbit passes, speaking and consulting a watch, and the ordinary afternoon tilts into strangeness. Lewis Carroll builds the change from familiar objects rather than announcing wonder in advance. The page offers boredom, pictures, conversation, heat, curiosity and sudden motion as possible openings. Follow whichever detail makes the scene move for you. Your poem need not chase the Rabbit or know the later adventure; it can remain by the bank, wake slowly, or discover another threshold in the words Carroll placed there.