Welcome to the twenty-seventh day of our 30/30!
Hand cramping up? Heels blistered? Pen out of ink? What a journey we’ve undertaken. We’re nearly there, dear ones. You’ve totally got this.
Your prompt today is:
Write a poem from the point of view of your feet.
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Ode to Feet
Encased in heavy Buster Brown’s and
orthopedic fixes of the moment guaranteed
to eliminate those dreaded flat feet, we
were carefully radiographed at shoe stores
for perfect fitting into those saddle shoes of
the girls’ school, the ones my mother cut the
toes out of to wear longer in the summer. Or
take the first pumps for graduation that she
made the neighbor lady go and buy, never
mind the bee sting that almost made it
impossible to get them on— These feet have
been adventurous partners: take the soccer
stadium in Xalapa, the miles of heaved broken
brick lanes where we never once failed to bend
and cling to slant and hole, navigated solefully
the tree fractured cement in Veracruz. How we
raced to street cars, busses and trolleys in the city.
Slipped through guttering streets ripe with orange peels,
last nights ticket stubs, today’s transfers in their bright
yellow and lime green. One day, we escaped to slim
sandals. Soon we dared to go barefoot, even sliding
into workboots sans socks and loving every minute.
Now we boast painted toes with a little help from the
owner, primp alongside the hundred others striding down
the grocery aisles and consider that if boots were made
for walking as some contend, without us there wouldn’t
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have been a song, or any of those celebrated journeys. (last line disappeared:))
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so much in common – another flat-footer subjected to saddle shoes:)
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Shod/unshod I tread
Upon paths soft, stony hard
Offering support
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