Kooser Column 3

Kooser comments on the poem as he introduces it: “A poem need not go on at great length to accomplish the work of conveying something meaningful to its readers. In the following poem by the late Marnie Walsh, just a few words, written as if they'd been recorded in exactly the manner in which they'd been spoken, tell us not only about the missing woman in the red high heels, but a little something about the speaker as well.”

The first four lines:

we all went to town one day

went to a store

bought you new shoes

red high heels

To finishing reading the poem, please visit Kooser’s fine Web site at American Life in Poetry: Column 3.

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