Small Shoes

If there are fewer stars now
than when I was a child,

I can’t say
which are missing,
who was the last to see them.

Is it not a crime
unless we call it a crime?

It is difficult to document
a disappearance,
a boat full of stars

capsized.
Stars lying in the sand

face-down,
wearing small shoes.
Add that to the report:

some of the stars washed up
in small shoes.