Елена Дремух

to be breaking in new shoes and get blisters on one’s foot/feel/heel(s)

to have shoes rub the back of one’s foot/feet/heel(s) raw

One day in cold winter, benumbed in my feeling,

I left a big forest; there was a hard frost.

I saw a draught horse with a cart of dry kindling,

Which slowly trudged forward uphill and then forth.