blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY

ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR

Yes?

The dollar mark said
my shoe was long enough
and wide enough and happy
enough which was enough for
me. But it was not enough
for my foot. What did he care
for a happy shoe?
I gave him my left ear.
The right one I kept for
myself and in it I heard

right, right  


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