"Religion" by Robert Wrigley

This poem, is literally about a dog, and how the dog, was scared of it at first...believing there maybe a foot in it. But later taking it home, always passing by it sniffing it--almost ritually, checking if that "mysterious" foot will come back.

The title "Religion" pretty much speaks for it self, the dog is in a sense, us...the believers, at first scared of the unknown, the all powerful God. (aka: the foot) We take the religion to heart, and into our lives(home) and although we've never actually seen God (foot) we believe that one day it (Jesus/foot) will come back. We go to church weekly, just as the dog visits the shoe, knowing that when we go to church God will not literally be there---but we believe it.