The Shoe On its side white laces bedraggle form a curve into a dark puddle of recently fallen rain. Water inches up the cotton, darkens once brilliant bright orange go faster stripes He knew it
The Shoe
On its side white laces bedraggle
form a curve into a dark puddle
of recently fallen rain. Water inches
up the cotton, darkens once brilliant
bright orange go faster stripes He knew it was her shoe, she had abandoned, like him
at the bus stop in sunshine and showers.
She had opened his gift with laughter. That gift now incomplete. He knew she would not return for it.
Paul Brookes
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews