One step after another
One leather shoe
Following one leather shoe
Shoes for many occasions
Solid, reliable
Soled and heeled more that once
You would buy them again
If you could find them
If you could get your money-memory working
How many backward steps
Would it take to reach
That shoe shop, where you bought them new
That would be quite some journey
Wouldn’t it now
How many stories would be turned up on the way
Hadn’t they been to a wedding
And more than one job interview
Most of which you did take on
One job then another
One intentional step
Following one intentional step
One monikered stocking
After another
Snug-fitting, monikered stocking
