Smithereens Press Chapbooks Taking the Oath by Tom French | Page 11

Thaw
i.m. Paddy Maguire of Dunsany

You undo
shoelaces
and take off
socks to go
barefoot
through
paddocks
frosty in May
in the story
of your life;
and hoosh,
from where
they lay
all night,
to thaw out
your feet,

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