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My writing owes a debt of gratitude to Paul Grobstein for his applied neurobiology, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ever-growing archive known as Serendip. In my undergraduate time, Paul was the white rabbit who led me down the interdisciplinary rabbit hole. I coined the phrase Alice in Wonderland Philosophy to describe the practice of approaching the arts and humanities from training and qualifications in the natural sciences. I paired this phrase with its converse, Through the Looking Glass Poetics, in order to structure my dissertation in creative and critical writing on interdisciplinary practice. Through the Looking Glass Poetics is the practice of approaching the natural sciences from training and qualifications in the arts and humanities. My first poetry collection, Phenomenology of the Feral, is an example of Through the Looking Glass Poetics and features Paul Grobstein, the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, and the fluorescent white rabbit chimaera Alba. I have defended my ongoing commitment to exploring current scientific research through poetry as being haunted by the ghost of these literal and metaphorical white rabbits. This story is some kind of afterlife…