Bound – Unbound
Rachael Simpson
USA - Montana 2007
“The child’s foot doesn’t know yet that it’s a foot,
And wants to be a butterfly or an apple.
But then stones and pieces of glass,
Streets, ladders
And the paths of the hard earth
Go on teaching the foot that it can’t fly,
That it can’t be a round fruit on a branch.
The child’s foot then was overcome, it fell
In the battle,
was a prisoner,
condemned to live in a shoe.”
From To the Foot from Its Child
By Pablo Neruda