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Found KG shoe, upside down, five inch heel in the air, turquoise sole, almost clean, I saw another, not the partner, a Primark affair, I remember my daughter\u2019s Italian shoes and under our stairs, <\/p>\n Maria Isakova-Bennett<\/strong> lives in Liverpool, teaches art part-time and recently graduated with an MA in creative writing. The New Writer, Envoi, Orbi<\/em>s, and Crannog<\/em> have published her work and she has publication forthcoming in Poetry Bus<\/em>, and Boyne Berrie<\/em>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Found KG shoe, upside down, five inch heel in the air, open toe, slingback, a strappy thing, black, buckled three times on one side, turquoise sole, almost clean, just some pressure on the ball, Kurt Geiger, size thirty eight, made in Brazil. I saw another, not the partner, a Primark affair, slumped by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nopen toe, slingback, a strappy thing, black,
\nbuckled three times on one side,<\/p>\n
\njust some pressure on the ball,
\nKurt Geiger, size thirty eight, made in Brazil.<\/p>\n
\nslumped by the wall of the church
\nwhere I\u2019d seen boys the night before, eating chips.<\/p>\n
\nfor her school leavers do, five years ago.
\nAfter that night, only one shoe remained,<\/p>\n
\nthere\u2019s my abandoned six inch silver stiletto,
\nnot the shoe \u2013
\njust the stiletto.
\n <\/p>\n