Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Black Shoe

"...Like a foot thirty years barely beating..."

Black Shoe
(apologies to Sylvia Plath)

Black shoe!
You do not do—
achoo!
Like a foot
thirty years
barely beating
black shoe
(shew)
a really big
a broad
in Paris,
elsewhere—
Peru.







Article © Wayne F. Burke. All rights reserved.
Published in the May 22, 2023 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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