(I Blame) My Shoes’ [magma 37]

An excerpt from an oldie – one of my first published poems back in 2005, about regret at a lost chance of love in an issue about the female poet and the male muse. Click on the link to read the whole nine lines.

on midnight stone, I waited too long
for him to run back to me, I turned
too late to grasp him in slow hushed heels.

magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-37-2/poems/i-blame-my-shoes/