Feelings: Rambunctious Love Poem by Margaret Alice

Skipping barefoot in the rain, cavorting with
crocodiles and toads, harmonizing with
unicorns and frogs - I take immense delight
in all of these; the happy Alice said

Believing six impossible things before
breakfast each day - that is the only way
to live a life of beauty and content -
we were never meant to be enclosed

In drab, prefabricated reality, designed
in the minds of stuffy old men or horrible
women in black - life should be defined by
kids between four and twelve

Let serious thinkers wallow in reveries of a
neo-classical trend, engage in reverse-engineering
of modernism; I prefer to dance with the clowns,
rhyme with court jesters; discuss philosophy

With quantum mechanics and astrophysicists,
entrusting my feelings to rambunctious poets
who have no compunction about expressing love
as we know it and wish to show it...