Easter Shoes
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In a hidden chapter of the Good Book,Is there is a verse that explainsWhy Jesus cares for fashion,Why my feet must be encasedAnd pinched? When you’re a kid,It’s how someone else dresses you;You won’t grow into these black, shinypatents, as much as your motherWants it. On the way to Sunday School,You are a mirage, like the new store shineYou scuff, as you obey. [End Page 14]
Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and his most recent collection The War Against the Obvious. With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
