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The Holocaust Museum

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The Holocaust Museum

Austin Smith
Sep 21, 2022
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A roomful. 
A room

Full of shoes. 
Soles and

Loose laces. 
Flung tongues.

Most pairs 
Split up,

The right 
Right here,

The left 
Somewhere.

Waves of shoes 
Like a photograph

Of the sea
Taken in a storm.

Crests and troughs. 
Dark water.
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Arjan Tupan
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Sep 25, 2022

Beautiful impression.

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