A Muddy Dilemma

A boy in rubber boots 

sinking quick 

into the mire of an April mud

hole, mother’s warning 

to steer clear 

from temptation 

                           falling 

                                      on his deaf ear … 

Watching him calculate 

his options, I 

return to a similar dilemma, fifty 

some years before. When 

he notices me, 

the grin is all I need 

to remember: once a boy … 

what’s a boot to a foot if 

it’s still out 

growing its yard?  

     

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[W. Barrett Munn]

Leather and feet are born to part ways. Boys know this instinctively,

Winston

[emmajoygreen]

Wonderful! Never resist looking back on 'what if I do, what if I don 't! Great finish too - am smiling into the night.

[light and ashes]

very nice and very enjoyable.