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Upright

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, wrote standing up.

—Newspaper Item

Not upright but upstanding,

seeking not after flesh

of young girls but spirit,

his eyes on the heaven above

them rather than within.

This agony he feels,

a love as yet unarticulated,

forced into metaphor the way

icing sugar takes on another life

as the sure hand of the baker

squeezes it through mortar and tube

into hearts and bows, a daintiness

beyond the ken of mere romance,

this agony penetrating to the root

of teeth, rotting the bone.

Standing, yes, of course,

and on tiptoes, the posture

not only of poets but of poetry

itself, standing, all the better to see

the angle of sun

arcing the horizon,

all the closer

to the length of our reach.