square space

twenty-one consonants
five dissonant vowels
miss one
get boxed
in
finite combination
asking you
our player
to
define it
consolation
to win
to think outside it
not the towel
thrown in

the consummation
of columns, solemn rows
miss guide
by numbered left-hand sides
vying
the sound of
what is right
must go down

across is my burden
answers I can tell
are in pen’s inkwell
hoping I may think well enough
to solve
maybe it’s not in English