almost every bite at breakfast
is all please and bargaining
every footstep up to class
echoes with reluctance
every pose is desolate
as exit wounds
I'm holding, steadying, angling
them in my side vision--where
they're right there--by the door
so my practice speckles with
chuckles overfilling and now
spilling from my lungs
We're nicer on the way back
loosened and relaxed--me
from yoga, them because
they're done, by the time
we're home again, it's all
already a memory
And I think there will be other classes
warmed by them, memories of them--
keeping unspoiled from year to year;
the quiet, slow wonder of a stone
released and now flying lightly
borne forever over the water
_____________________________________
is all please and bargaining
every footstep up to class
echoes with reluctance
every pose is desolate
as exit wounds
I'm holding, steadying, angling
them in my side vision--where
they're right there--by the door
so my practice speckles with
chuckles overfilling and now
spilling from my lungs
We're nicer on the way back
loosened and relaxed--me
from yoga, them because
they're done, by the time
we're home again, it's all
already a memory
And I think there will be other classes
warmed by them, memories of them--
keeping unspoiled from year to year;
the quiet, slow wonder of a stone
released and now flying lightly
borne forever over the water
_____________________________________
Took the kids to yoga because the health chart was a desert (Friday, Dec 28th).
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