I'd say it does - and then some!
Roger
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From: "Christina Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:35 PM
Subject: Feet - second draft
> Wonder whether this solves the problems with the first draft?
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> Feet
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> When I see the photographs, I think of feet:
> how the child would have sat as its mother
> unrolled socks to pull over small toes,
> how she would have eased them into those shoes,
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> smoothing wrinkled wool, rocking the heel
> and fastening buckles so they were just right.
> Clearer images might show scuff marks
> or the notch that measured the child's arch.
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> I think of sandals and boots too: some polished,
> others not. The way laces might be tight
> or slack or threaded differently, the ease
> or struggle to tie a hurried knot.
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> Sometimes feet are all that's left - the shoes
> in all styles and sizes, old or new,
> are the last witnesses of daily life
> or the final visible act of love.
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> christina fletcher
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