BOOT: STRAP
It is thin leather
looping to the top of the boot:
something to hold onto
after you've fallen
and you're trying to get up.
The only thing to hold onto
according to those who know
human nature: cowboy philosophers
carrying guns and Gideons.
So when you're down in the dust,
remember that the boot
is not just for the foot
but is a hand, imminent
like a prayer, thick
like skin.
Richard Smyth
Posted over on Poets Against the War
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