A single bed.
Four pairs of shoes, polished, ranked.
Eight shoe-trees.
On the bedside table
a copy of Anna Karenina and
a balding teddy bear, one eye gone.
Dust-motes.
In the slightly open window,
tomorrow’s ironed shirt
hanging.
Matt Pitt is a poet and screenwriter from Brighton, UK. He has previously published in Acumen, Ambit, Prole and Under the Radar. His debut feature film, Greyhawk, received a Special Commendation Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His second feature, Man of Sorrows, begins shooting in 2021.
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