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May 26, 2021 by Michael Guerin

she asked me about toes.
if i found them disgusting,
something to hide
perpetually wrapped in socks
far from prying eyes.
or if it might be possible
to find beauty
in a naked foot,
stripped of all disguise.

it depends, i said,
on a number of factors.
when i was younger
i used to look at shoes
because you can tell a lot
about someone
from what they choose to wear.
that didn’t answer
her question directly,
of course,
so i talked about hygiene
and aesthetic qualities
like line and shape and form.
beauty in the eye
of any beholder,
to be sure,
and yet —

some seem to see
a bit more sensitively,
i suppose, peering beneath
the surface of things
to find what
truly matters.
i don’t know if my answer
suited her tastes
but she smiled
and walked away,
which left me wondering
why she bothered
to ask me
at all.

Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels

About Michael Guerin

writer, dreamer, lover, seeker. labels never reach the heart of any matter, but they might be a place to start...

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