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One Shoe

One Shoe

By Sandra Gilbert

My twin is gone, and I'm useless now,
an unemployed porter in a world without suitcases.
Dead air thrusts a heavy ankle between my flaps;
my laces stir at the wind's cold feet.
Sweat of leather, scuff of life,
if only I could rise and carry myself
away from my shape!

Prairie Schooner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Summer 1974)

Biography

Sandra Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert has published eight collections of poetry–most recently Aftermath (2011)–and among prose books, Wrongful Death, Death's Door, Rereading Women, and, in 2014, The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity. In 2015 she coedited Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing with Roger Porter.  She is currently at work on "Saturn's Meal," a new collection of verse. With longtime collaborator Susan Gubar, she received the 2012 Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle.

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