"A Review: I Found My Sole-Mate" by Laine Derr

A Review: I found my sole-mate

We met on a dating app, my wife

and I, our feet a perfect match,

mine dainty enough to fit in glass,

limbs strong enough to carry a prince

or a body, small in form, with toes

akin to a jackrabbit thoughtful of

the coming storm. I could tell you

a number of whimsical tales, feats

trapped between our toes – how we

fell in love despite the evening rain,

forked lightning no match for flesh.

Thank you, Footsie, we’re one again.


Laine Derr has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Work has appeared or is forthcoming from LETTERS, The Amistad, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ROPES, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, Chapter House, and elsewhere.

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