FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SCHOOL SHOES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words school and/or shoe, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on August 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: School Shoes will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Monday, August 5, 2024

Jackie Chou

A Ghazal of Privilege 


I cannot think of new shoes

When children go without school shoes


Rhinestone-studded, patent leather, three-inch heels

I've had my share of cool shoes


From Doc Martins to stilettos

Store windows display make-me-drool shoes


Some snooty shoppers stare down 

At my cheap flip-flops, my pool shoes


So I, Jackie, ask you my reader

To walk awhile in my no-fool shoes


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