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Toes

Apparently when this songwriter is bored during her tedious, routine daily commute to her day job via subway on those hazy, hot, humid, sultry summer days, she never knows where her thoughts might go to help pass the time. (Oh, and “digital” doesn’t just refer to electronics!)

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Toes

In the sultry summer on my way to work
when I take the Red Line “T” to Boston,
My eyes are cast down, mostly from the lack of sleep.
But, when they’re open, what a spectacle to see:
A flimsy, flip-flopp-ed, questionably fashionable digital fantasy!

There are dainty, painted, peeking-through-silky-
salmon-satin-toe-hole toes;
Tiny, candy-red-tipped, poking-through-frilly-flowered-flip-flops toes;
oyster-shell-lacquered, suffering-‘neath-the-weight-of-ice-blue-crystal-mock-rock-studded-sandals toes;
rouge, blanc et bleu French-tipped-to-match-their-
red-white-and-blue-sandal toes.

There are prestidigitated digits concealed in
fatigued army-camouflaged sandals;
elongated, red-punctuated, brown-bronze, thong-entwined toes;
once-new-and-nimble, now numb, neuropathetic toes;
much-too-swollen-and-stuffed-into-my-
too-conservative-shoes-for-comfort toes.

Then there are can’t-you-tell-I-haven’t-
washed-my-feet-in-several-days toes;
soft, pink, unadulterated, innocent and naked toes;
bound, bent, bunionated, bruised and blistered toes;
wiggling-out-of-their-pointy-spike-heels-to-
oh-so-comfortable-flip-flops toes.

Maybe I should look up more?
I really love . . . the fall!

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from NorthStream, released January 26, 2017

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Christina Nordstrom Boston, Massachusetts

In addition to three solo albums (Songs for the Journey Home, Kids’ Songs, and North Stream) this collection written by Chris Nordstrom includes two projects and a single recorded by Earth Harmony: Field Work (Nordstrom, Ted Mello, Michelle Glidden), Earth Harmony Sampler (Nordstrom, Ted Mello, Ric Bailey), and Rock, Paper, Scissors (Nordstrom, Ric Bailey, Michelle Glidden, Bruce Joy). ... more

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