Footfall
︎︎︎ Sam Forster
︎ Aug 25, 2025
This was a house.
Now it is an alphabet
of stone
violently fractured,
letters without grammar.
Mortar chunks
as punctuation,
strewn out
by careless editors.
A man finds his daughter’s shoe
and says nothing.
What is there to say
when the foot
is elsewhere?
Now it is an alphabet
of stone
violently fractured,
letters without grammar.
Mortar chunks
as punctuation,
strewn out
by careless editors.
A man finds his daughter’s shoe
and says nothing.
What is there to say
when the foot
is elsewhere?
Sam Forster is a political journalist, war correspondent, and poet from Edmonton, Canada.
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Also by Sam: Checkpoint