### Clue: In the end, provocative footwear used, oddly, for pastoral work (7)
### Answer: ECLOGUE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: pastoral work
 **Last letter of**(In the end) "provocative" + CLOG(footwear with a thick wooden sole) + **1st and 3rd letters of**(…, oddly) "used".
Defn: … in the form of a short poem.