Rabbit Hole

I wonder how they eat

faraway friends — raw fruit? broiled meats?

once intimates gang astray

or was I the stray who gang? you who prayed

once, then forgot me, not for malice

nay, merely closer concerns than for Alice

fallen into circumstance —

circumference, bowlered rabbits, idle dance

of hearts & spades, cholera

smites the lesser pips, funeral folderols
naught but guides to rigaudon

allemande, bourrée, gavotte, chaconne