January 27th is Rabbit Hole Day. It’s the birthday of Lewis Carroll, the guy who came up with Wonderland and Jabberwocky.

For many writers, January 27th is a day to embrace absurdity and surrealism. It’s a day to create something whimsical, just for the sake of it.

I was going to write a post today about ROI, or fulfillment, or some such thing that feels useful and productive. But then I remembered today is Rabbit Hole Day, and so I wrote the poem below.

I hope you like it. It just kind of came to me, but it also feels like something that’s needed today.

I hope you’ll take some time today to put down important things and make some space for whimsy. If you do, let me know what you chose to do. Create a picture or poem, dance in your pajamas with your cat, stand on your head for a Zoom call… put something joyfully different in the world today, without self judgment.

Together

At sunrise came the robin's call,
From top the shadowed moonlit trees.
Its song in lilting notes did fall
Befeathered on an evening breeze.

From torpid dreams did I awake,
A lashing discord on my heart!
A windling wrath of feverache
Might rend my wheelish soul apart.

And then below the feltish sky,
I felt you lying by my side---
An everfessent lullaby
To sail me home on suffin tide.

So stay with me until the end,
When seas and air are ground to sand.
We’ll be each other’s landal friend,
Forever twindled, hand in hand.

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