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In this poem I wrote
alongside a little--

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I guess an etching and
an ink print of the shoes

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that I wore to my
sister's memorial.

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"Open-Toed Shoes."

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Figure one.

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Shoes worn once with
collapse intuited.

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A. Heel-- 2.5
inches, wooden, faux.

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I'd never fallen on a
stage, on a sidewalk,

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in a bad relationship, never.

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Not a single heartbreak--

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sneakers and sandals,
tomboy, wanderer, method.

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Stay low to the ground.

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The break would wait,
plus B. Toes absent,

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bent from two small shoes,
from two small budgets,

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from a too long childhood.

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C. And here, one must
step outside the figure.

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And here, one must leap--

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dream signs, dream
visions, and so forth.

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Full-grown I landed
in Houston and shopped

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with a man not shown.

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"You look so different,"
I said to him.

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There was blue between us.

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"Those shoes?"

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he asked, when I lifted them.

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"Yes," I said, and
slipped them on.

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And yes, to their
blue dusk straps.

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Yes, to the box, to the bag.

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And yes, to figuring
where to wear them.

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Figure 2.

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April.

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The space where one--

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and is led.

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Intuit, intuit, intuit.

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She fell, they answered,
when I asked what happened.

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And one week later
into the grove

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she went while I
stood in these shoes.

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These shoes.

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