Clad in peasants' tunics and baggy trousers,
and barefoot in the soft grass warmed by the sun above,
they play. But at the dinner hour, announced by several clocks
they (who dislike shoes) sheathe their feet in summer-sheer socks,
which will not be taken off when they "get naked" to make love.
But the stiffened confinements represented by shoes
are impediments they eagerly, even adamantly, refuse:
Alexei and Kolya, enjoying their adolescences' full bloomings and powers.
Starwardized