Van Gogh’s Boots by Kitty Jospe A Pair of Shoes, VanGogh Credit Only a pair of boots, a man’s only pair of boots. Leather aches into a stiff lip, chafes the space mangled laces barely close — peasant boots — artist’s boots — mute mates. One pulled up stark watching the other lip folded open as if ready to speak. A painting of boots, one with a cow-thick tongue hanging in the bleeding shadows of a barn, the other kicked off, crumpled in fatigue. The caked spring mud says one man has been out in the world, walking. One flung to the bare floor, empty of sinew and bone, the other standing upright, a sentinel watching over its mate.
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