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One Blue Shoe

A poem by Barbara De Franceshi

Posted: June 19, 2009


On a naked

concrete

floor

lies

a blue

shoe

sideways

buckle undone

next to

packing crates

marked

fragile


Barbara De Franceshi -- seraph10@bigpond.com -- lives in Broken Hill, Australia, in western New South Wales. She has been published widely in Australian journals and anthologies, also in Switzerland , U.S.A. , New Zealand , UK and Ireland and on numerous occasions has read her work live to air on ABC Radio.

Spring 2009 Poetry:

RAPPERS AND THEIR GAME by Michael Cromwell
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Three poems by Robert Flanagan
OCCUPATION by Elizabeth Pavlov
ONE BLUE SHOE by Barbara De Franceshi
THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR by Jennifer Juneau
CASH CROP CONCRETE HOLLOW by Dave Migman
THE SWIMMERS by Oskar Hansen
MAUDLIN MOMENTS by Judson Hamilton
HORNETS by Christie Isler
BLACK MAGIC BOXES by John Tortora

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