My fingers are wonky.
Long,
slender,
but wonky.
They start off straight enough,
but seem to loose focus near the ends
where suddenly they tilt off course
as if there was a cat in the road
or something.
I think it’s a Forrester trait.
Hands and feet not quite lined up
the way they should be.
The length is all Swin,
though the blood ran short
at the other end,
with teeny, tiny toes
more child than woman.
Index, middle and fourth
are all the same length.
Even the little
isn’t really little in comparison
just a fraction shorter
than the other mini sausages
wriggling beside it.
At one family gathering,
we compared missing knuckles,
stumpy thumbs
and odd shaped toes
to see who could call bingo
with a full set of oddities.
Actually,
that should have been the name
given to my family.
I hope tonight’s poetic’s host doesn’t mind me using fingers and toes as my family trait in response to tonight’s prompt. I know we were only meant to pick one family trait, but in my defense, the two are linked and it’s the same family trait that messes with the knuckles in our hands and our feet.
In my case you can only really see it clearly in my feet but my sister has it in one hand. Her middle finger is slightly shorter than her index finger and fourth finger. Most people don’t notice my wonky fingers unless they point them out so I think I got away slightly lighter when it came to the genetics lottery.
Carol J Forrester 
I have wonky fingers too! My husband laughs at them. But my toes are unusually long. He laughs at them too. I don’t think I’d like to be perfect, that’s boring! 🙂
An enjoyable poem I can relate to, Carol!
Thanks Kim. My other half has unusually long toes too! He can use them almost like fingers, it can be a bit weird when you ask him to pass you something.
That’s quite humorous, the fingers and toes family reunion. The cat in the road reference is hilarious. I refer to my toes as missle toes, they all shot off in different directions, lol
I’m glad you found it funny. 🙂 My toes aren’t long enough to go too far off course luckily, my fiancee does like to tease me about how small they are though.
I call my wife’s fingers Weenie fingers
Haha.
🙂
This made me smile. Every family is a little odd. 🙂
This is so good. I love the first line, and this:
“to see who could call bingo
with a full set of oddities”
A funny game of bingo…I laughed at the cat in the road and love the word “wonky” 🙂
Love the last stanza and the family camaraderie feeling throughout.
Your poem made me smile! I could see everything you were describing. Really great.
dwight
Bodies can be so funny looking, especially if certain gene came through so strongly they took over!😁
The word ‘wonky’ is great!
I so love the comparing of oddities… fingers are fun… but mine seems so normal.
fingers and toes can be duplicated it seems right down the family tree, like roots and branches. I loved your comparisons and the family reunion made me smile.
😁