A pair of red shoes

There is a pair of red shoes
number twenty-four
nearly new:
inner sole can still be seen on the brand of factory
"Schulze Monaco."
There is a pair of red shoes
atop a pile of children's shoes to
Buckenwald
were a child of three and a half years
who knows what color his eyes were burned in ovens

but we can imagine her crying
know how the children weep
even his feet they can imagine
shoe number twenty-four
for 'eternity
because the feet of the dead children do not grow.
There is a pair of red shoes to
Buckenwald

almost new because the feet of the dead children do not consume
soles.
Joyce Lussier