Instagram Poem #4
Slippers found near a park bench in downtown Syracuse. Photo by Francis DiClemente.
Mystery Slippers
Sunday morning:
a pair of white slippers
left near a park bench
in downtown Syracuse.
Questions abound:
Who owns the shoes
and where did the person
sleep last night?
No answers to be found,
so instead cue Johnny Cash’s
big, beautiful voice singing
“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down.”
Francis DiClemente 