Both Barefoot Stereotypes

BOTH BAREFOOT STEREOTYPES


Remembering the thick hard shoe-like
soles of lifelong discalced who
callous up of barefoot experience
I see before the very picture
of kicked-off contradictions
in presumption about

For the last people in
late entrants into athropology
out of the Great Sandy Desert
the Bindubi come from that sand
into the gibber and cut-stone country
make for their long sand-softened
feet sandals for a season or more
woven on to their feet from
the string-long bark strips
torn form a duneside bush