work boots
seven holed
size eleven
ankle high
onyx black
mud-kickers
w/ ridgeway
treads
leather footbeds
furrowed
at full
grained toes
(grinding, binding)
(moiling, toiling)
(drudgery, fudgery, trudgery)
are they working?
wrestling w/ the divine
days steeped
in clangor cahoots
& other soots
flung fomently
into a path
are they working, the boots?
(slogging, dragging, slugging)
(hauling, trawling, heaving)
BOOTS FOR HIRE! BOOTS FOR HIRE!
no walk-arounds
just plodding right through
w/tight bellows tongue
the only pass
Calvin Becker (www.calvinbecker.com) is a poet, singer/songwriter & musician from Calgary, AB, Canada. His work seeks to capture the emotion and ideation of the instance (“decisive moment”) expressing the compassion & humanness we all share in the quandary of our world. His poetry has been published in the USA & Canada (Illinois, Oregon, New York, Iowa, Florida, British Columbia, and Alberta) and his music & lyrics have been performed/played in the UK, USA, Germany & Canada.