It so happens...

We were practicing repetitions last fall, playing around with anaphora, the repetition of the same words at the start of lines, sentences or paragraphs and with epiphora, repetition at the end of lines, sentences or paragraphs.   I love how Andrienne Su uses anaphora in her poem, the repeating lines building up and resonating with each other, both disappearing and standing out.

Adrienne Su "An Hour Later, You Are Hungry Again" 
from The New Yorker, Nov 18, 2019, which uses "For the" as the repeated words at the start of each line. Do check it out!

And from one of our prompts to use a repeating phrase with each sentence, here's my attempt at using anaphora in a small story, "It So Happens".

It so happens that worms spend their life making compost out of garbage.
It so happens that my father is a fisherman.
It so happens that bait is often wriggly red wet worms.
It so happens that I need to to dispose of a body -- never mind whose.
It so happens that there is a pit nearby.

It so happens that my father is out of town.
It so happens that he came home today,
It so happens that he is upset to learn so many worms have disappeared.
It so happens that the worms miss my father.
It so happens that they also come home,  a long wriggly train of wet, well-fed, red worms.

It so happens that well-fed, sassy worms make my dad question things.
It so happens that it made him question me.
It so happens that I am not a good lier.
It so happens I spilled the beans and my sister's hamster's little body was exhumed - or at least most of what was left of it.

It so happens that it takes a long time for worms to dispose of bodies, even very little bodies.