Red Shoes: Poems

by Honor Moore

“Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. . . . Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty, Moore’s poems are at once cool and searing.”― Booklist

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Honor Moore is the author of Our Revolution; The Bishop’s Daughter, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book; and three poetry collections. A professor at the New School, she lives in New York City.

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"All that autumn you step from the train
as if something were burning
something is burning
running across green grass bare feet
that day death was only
what we lose in fall comes back in spring
something is burning
from the train you climb
smoke between the skyscrapers
Paris was so beautiful, the sky—
all that autumn
then tears
Why do we do this again?
she turns to you in the kitchen
she puts her arms around you
she is wearing those red shoes"- Red shoes, Honor Moore.