Without Me
without me my shoes so still on the floor
Bruce Ross
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without me my shoes so still on the floor
Bruce Ross’s short poem opens with “without me,” so right away the speaker is absent from the scene. What remains is a pair of shoes sitting motionless on the floor. Shoes normally imply movement, walking, a person going somewhere. Here, their stillness makes the absence feel physical.
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