BOOT: PETITE
Petite boot
--not petite bourgeoisie:
as in booties,
small soft things
for small soft feet.
The petite boot is made
to prepare the young for the world:
for a lifetime of cover-up,
hiding, protection:
soon there will be alarm bells,
gated walls, barbed wire
around the perimeter of our homes--
to keep out the shoeless ones.
Richard Smyth
Posted over on Anabiosis Press
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