Titanic
Some of the shoes
still lay in pairs
on the ocean floor.
Small slender boats—
the flirtatious tilt
of an ankle in a t-strap,
glare of chandelier
on a shiny oxford.
In strong currents
the broken clocks
of their bodies,
swaying.
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