With apologies to Carl Sandburg*
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Love wears no shoes.
It uncoils barefoot
in the sand
and wiggles
like a slinky
between bare souls
playing in the waves
as it arcs
from skin to skin
across the shore.
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(c) 1995, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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*Carl Sandburg wrote a poem with this same title, which has the following line:
“There is a pair of shoes love wears and the coming is a mystery.”
(I beg to disagree. 🙂 )
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(a re-post, revised)