Cornell (50th Reunion Sestina)

Bedfellows,  (we’re back)
embellished:
cellphones
umbrellas
potbellies
novellas (unwritten) bestsellers (unwritten)

Hello
marvelous
mellifluous
compelling 
mellow 
bells

Hello
spellbinding
(lakes) dells, smells
excellent
dwellings
(steeper) stairwells

Hello
stellar
cerebellums
intelligent, intellectual
bombshell 
demoiselles

rebellious
bellicose
belligerent 
yellowbellied
expelled
dumbbells

Hello (again)
Boswell
Shelley
Orwell
Bellows 
Elliot

Cornell (it’s been) swell 
unparallelled  (misspelled) 
Farewell, farewell 

Florence Cassen Mayers   ‘61