Spirit Lesson

There is Spirit

in everything

and everything
we do, the teacher

said yesterday
at my first

lesson. I look at

my shoe.

There is Spirit

in you,
black shoe.

How you hold

my foot without

complaining.
How you keep

out the cold.

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There is Spirit
in my foot, too.

Its many bones,

how they work

together.
How they listen

when I say
to sit still.