Boot: Miraculous

Photograph by Charlie Andre


BOOT: MIRACULOUS


We speak of the miracles of modern science:
laser surgery,
quantum computing,
ten-dimensional superstrings,
but we sometimes forget
the simple miracles of the mundane.

Take the boot, for instance:
flesh of destinations,
host of horizons,
it sacrifices itself for us--
not for our sins
but for our ascent.

We must remember that,
in the time before wings,
the boot was our one tool
of transcendence, a technology
of vision.

So let us praise the boot
and all that it offers us:
the journey,
a way through the mud,
a virgin birth of becoming.


Richard Smyth

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