As Is So Often the Case

As Is So Often the Case

Units of centimorgans
vie for attention with daily
word conundrums riding
shotgun—it’s become a focus
point for staying the course.
Holding onto that thought
is the new shapeshifter now;
an eternal blip in the present.

So, how does that sound ?,
she offers through the wires,
not wanting to appear in any
way unhelpful—like the
bated breath of magnified
silence inside a canyon
trying not to laugh, I would
imagine—how does that sound ?.

©️Orion Foote, 2022