Can a cognitive poetics provide an account of poetic unity--the magical feeling you have while reading a lyric poem that you are experiencing life from the interior of an alien consciousness? According to Damasio (1994), consciousness is "continuously and consistently reconstructed" moment by moment as the organism registers the changes of state introduced by experiencing an object (238-40). These somatosensory images are used by the organism to aid current decision-making and the evaluation of hypothetical scenarios (219). Object images prompted by language, though "less vivid than those prompted by the exterior" (108), can still trigger the creation of consciousness. A lyric prompts combinations of cognitive and--crucially--somatic responses that are categorized as characteristically consciousness-like, though we can recognize them as not genuinely our own. Because of its unique construction, the lyric poem might be useful for empirically verifying the somatic marker hypothesis.