BAREFOOT

(translated by Karin Pečnikar)

Take off your shoes!

so I can see how your soles

touch the nourishing earth,

how they bend the grass,

how they imprint the sand.

So that I can feel your whole being in your soles,

from the joy of gentle touches

to the fear of pain.

So I can meet your feet

alongside mine.

(My shoes do not know

how to communicate with yours.)