Looking-Glass Insects and the Nameless Wood

1 From above, the little hill with its single tree rises over a vast chessboard country

2 On tiptoe, a small girl watches an elephant sip from a cottage-sized flower like a bee

3 At the engine's shrill scream the railway carriage lifts straight into the air.

4 Alice sits calmly under a tree while the chicken-sized Gnat fans her from a low twig

5 Alice and the Gnat gaze at the holly-winged snap-dragon-fly, its raisin head aflame

6 The Gnat sighs on its twig as two large tears roll down its cheeks after its failed joke

7 In the nameless wood, Alice strains to remember her name and recalls only the letter L

8 At the edge of the nameless wood, Alice holds out a careful hand to a dappled fawn

9 The Fawn leaps away crying that she is a human child, leaving Alice with open arms