30 October 2014

Uneasiness (October 30)


In the dark,
windy, cold,
     leaves
skitter unsettled
                       unsettling as they
                    scuttle
                beneath
                   the headlight beams
across the road giddy and
                  unpredictable like
                         kids
           on Halloween
   night.

21 October 2014

a position without pain

The restorative yoga teacher says
to move to a position where nothing
in your body is calling attention to 
pain, and I snort and think that there
is no such position for me, and I wonder
if there is such a position for anyone, 
and then I think, surely there must 
have been such a position at SOME
point in my past, and I realize that,
if there ever was, I can't remember 
it right now, and the grief is another
dull pain I add to the list of pains to
ignore right now while I try to focus
on just breathing in and out and in.