Metering Out

An English teacher finds himself fallen down the rabbit hole and stands now before the giant mushroom:

“I mean that I teach poetry.”

“I’m not surprised,” said the Caterpillar. “Poetry has a thing or two to learn. It has more feet than I do and they’re terribly difficult to keep track of.”

A quote from “A Common Night,” by Bruce Holland Rogers in the anthology Fantastic Alice (Margaret Weiss, ed.) [via Some thoughts on meter]