Name: Boots & Teeth
Duration: P00H01M10S
Description: Nothing like a good pair of boots.

Boots & Teeth

from Seaglass Strange by Red O'Hare

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Nothing like a good pair of boots.

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I smile at everyone
and nobody trusts me.
I smile at everyone
and nobody trusts me
but all I can absorb
is a solid, stomping reverb
up from asphalt
through good, hard soles.

How did I forget?
What it was to own the landscape
from my feet to the horizon.
Twin rings expanding outward
with every stride
step
stride.

A decade has leaked by.
Cracks in a dam.
Maybe I’m done
with staunching the flow
maybe it is time
for some other direction.
These wounds, they are old,
coddled infection.
I am through nursing
these scars, red and sore
and I am finished cursing
who I was before.

I smile at everyone
and nobody trusts me.
I smile at everyone
and nobody trusts me
but all I can feel
is good boots on the street.
Maybe, not smiling
just showing my teeth.

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from Seaglass Strange, released June 7, 2019

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Red O'Hare Portland, Oregon

Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet from Oakland, California where she featured twice with Bay Area Generations. A product of Presbyterian missionaries from the Belgian Congo and Eastern European carny folk, Red has been performing poetry for 20 years. She works in a bakery and is compiling a list of people who want her dead. ... more