Monday, January 11, 2010

Boot: Inhabited


BOOT: INHABITED


Sometimes the boot is big enough
to house whole families

as in the Old Woman
who once lived in a shoe
and was evicted for failure
to pay rent
so she moves in to an abandoned boot.

This is fantasy after all:
people don't live in boots, shoes,
unless there be giants,
drunk, stumbling shoeless
through the moonless night.

Richard Smyth

Posted over on Anabiosis Press

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