until some travelers risked life for amnesty
The Poem with No End
Linda Hogan
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1710589/the-poem-with-no-end
The Poem with No End
A human is a meager thing in such immensity, the way a little shoe is small on the stones where unknown travelers hoped for amnesty. And though the mother and father searched a lifetime, all that was ever seen was a shoe, the small cold shoe washed up on dark stone.