Monday, January 11, 2010

Boot: Deified


BOOT: DEIFIED


You can read of how natural
this process is
in the journals of neurotheology:
the deification of cognition,
the assumption of wonder:
miraculous
radical.

And so it is with the boot:
once we recognize its role
in our lives--
the way it separates us
from the animal earth,
the lizard instincts,
and lifts us towards the heavens--

we will build it a temple,
fall upon the altar,
spill ourselves in sacrifice,
sing hymns in praise
and give glory
to boot.

Richard Smyth

Posted over on Anabiosis Press

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