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She says
walk barefoot
feel the breath
of the earth
under your feet
the way root
curls
around stone
the dust
and loam
the way your foot
falls
blur
and blur with
the passage of other feet
fox print and
raccoon paw
the tiny
hopping
steps
of chickadee
starling
the frost is in
the ground
iron hard
my feet will not be bare
but I watch
still
as breaths that cloud the air
for paw prints
treading
in the snow