WHY WOMEN WADE   we are the one who clothed      bare-legged though          move deliberately to the ecotone where we came from      remove our foot bindings          wriggle our toes and not tenuously like summer swimmers         wade in the icy waters          of spring and fall finding hard sand ridges      to massage          our startled feet like minnows      we are sure          of our purpose     ecotone: the zone between two major ecological communities

 
 
 

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