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Wonderland: Through the Glass Darkly

Wonderland: Through the Glass Darkly

Nordby, Jacob
Donovan, Ann Q.

Paperback

Series: The Wonderland Poetry Trilogy, Book 3

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798181930940
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book 3 of The Wonderland Poetry Trilogy

Through the Glass Darkly is the final volume of The Wonderland Poetry Trilogy - the collection where Alice finally faces what has been waiting at the end of the rabbit hole. These are poems of life, loss, time, and death, written in Ann Q. Donovan's signature voice: wry, wise, unhurried, and profoundly awake.

Part One: Life surveys the whole strange territory of living. A child who cannot imagine sitting quietly on the beach while the waves come in. The body's muscle memory still rocking a baby long after the babies are grown. A dream about a button on the wall that could reset everything - and the wisdom not to press it.

Part Two: Loss is the poetry of leaving. A Colorado home of fifty years. A forest traded for a highway view. Friends who drifted quietly. A brother's ashes mixed with flower seeds and cornmeal and planted in winter ground. Loss here is not catastrophe but weather - a natural condition that eventually becomes the landscape itself.

Part Three: Time arrives as gradual accumulation. Standing at the threshold of eighty. The slow dissolving of words - Pastwords, tender and funny and devastating all at once. Bargaining with old age over vision and memory. The realization that time is a brook you cannot grab with both hands.

Part Four: Death is met not as defeat but as homecoming. A train that pulls up and you get on unassisted, smiling. A leaf clinging to the branch - stay, or free fall? Ann's answer to the question of what death actually is arrives with uncommon lightness and grace.

The book closes with Alice and the Caterpillar's old question: Who are you? Ann's answer - that we are the light that wove its way to earth eons ago - lands as revelation rather than resolution.

For readers approaching mortality with curiosity rather than fear. For anyone who has lost someone, or a place, or a version of themselves. For those who find courage in poems that do not look away.

The Wonderland Poetry Trilogy: Book 1: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole - Book 2: Through the Looking Glass - Book 3: Through the Glass Darkly

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