The Shoes

Always he’d leave them
where he dropped them,
one unlaced, the other tugged
enough to loosen that foot free.
Now before I go to bed
I put them where they’ll stumble
me in the dark, my bare skin
where his has been.

25 thoughts on “The Shoes

  1. Gaby Bedetti

    Pauletta, your lovely poem reminds me of a haiku by Buson

    the piercing cold —
    in our bedroom stepping
    on my dead wife’s comb

    Reply
    1. Pauletta Hansel

      Thank you! I love it. This poem was inspired by a photograph of shoes. (And the fact that I am always complaining about my husband leaving his shoes laying around. :-) )

      Reply
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