Five Steps

Over the head of each metatarsal you can see where each has been pounded, some more abused than others. Over the years new prominences and depressions form and reform. Surreal faces appear within the lines of the skin, features that now seem to look inward as if the hammer had become that which it had once so heavily hit. In the tenderness of your elder years, if you touch one of those metatarsal heads with a sensitive fingertip you can trace back the life-step, where you had been faced with just 5 choices or less.