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CONSOLATION
by Lise Downe
 

If only commodious
was the only issue.
If
not just by your utterance
but back a bit.
The steps swallowed whole
left uninhabited.
Wide-eyed and wondering.

If the consequence of weird feet
was then juxtaposed
by a hyphen,
grounded on a premise
that undulates in spite of
in spite of.
Shock infusing everything. 
Everywhere.

One of whom and one of whom 
one then may gather.
To turn, then, 
these anomalies, their pockets 
useless unless the two overlap
like a fortune cookie.
Luckily.