Wondering
See that shoe there
by the side of the highway?
Is it detritus from some horrific accident
that left a carful of joyriding teenagers
dead?
Their parents and friends
forever grieving?
Wondering
If only they hadn’t
If only I had.
I wonder
but it's too terrible to consider for long.
Or did a college student
driving his entire life back home for the summer
Stop to change a tire
open the door
and the shoe fell
unnoticed
to the pavement?
Later
finding only one shoe
did he wonder aloud
What the…?
Where the heck is my other shoe?
I wonder
but I think he did.