“Your dangerous shoe.” A Poem by Lila Matsumoto
The poem reflects on a personal experience involving a broken shoe and a kind flatmate. The flatmate shares memories of his childhood pet falcon, connecting the speaker to Serbian culture. The poem also recalls a Serbian poet's unique drinking style and his poignant poetry.
- ▪The speaker's shoe was taped up by a flatmate, making it difficult to wear.
- ▪The flatmate shared stories about his childhood pet falcon from Serbia.
- ▪The speaker recalls a Serbian poet who had a distinctive way of drinking water and recited short poems.
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| Original publisher | Literary Hub |
| Canonical URL | https://lithub.com/your-dangerous-shoe-a-poem-by-lila-matsumoto/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 08:58:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T09:07:56.948Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T09:07:56.948Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 5Awnt7Fpsuxk |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
When I woke up I discovered that Dorothy’s flatmate had taped up my broken shoe so tightly with electrical tape that I couldn’t get my foot in it to go to work. The flatmate had been very kind. He showed me pictures of a pet falcon he had when he was a boy. He was from Serbia. The only other Serbian person I’d heard a memory from was a famous poet who read his work at an event at the university. In between the poems he told us stories about his childhood and drank out of his water bottle. I had never seen anyone drink water like him: instead of sips, he put the entire opening of the bottle fully in his mouth and took a shot. Then he resumed with his short dark poems about angels and bandages. __________________________________ Talk a Blue Streak is available from Monitor Books.
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