Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  Questions of Unfulfilled Longing Only So Far by Robert Cording When we’re turned away at the thousandth mile, having traveled 999 before it—when our labors of love never reach consummation—when we can’t get no satisfaction—well, what do we get instead? Robert Cording’s collection Only So Far poses this question from its very first poem, “Kafka’s Fence”: “Haven’t we …