National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 11
THE FLOOR MAT
(Good Friday)
is everyday trampled underfoot
by heavy boots, pressing in grime,
grinding unkindly the smear into stain
with each toe-twist-dig and slow heel-scrape:
careless, callous, thoughtless, mean
(while, underneath, the virgin carpet
is spotless, new, impossibly clean).