It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
Swaying in tree pose invoking ability to quell shaking limbs, I question years of narrow rings future possibilities of wide ones in-between. I breathe-in realign bend to chronic thirst skip warrior III, exhaling stronger children in eucalyptus & western red cedar hiding them in willow hair before we drop to corpse pose.
Jules Jacob is the author of Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books 2023), Rappaccini’s Garden, with Sonja Johanson (forthcoming White Stag Publishing Summer 2024), and The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in The New Women’s Voices Series (Finishing Line Press 2013). Her poems are featured or forthcoming in Plume, Rust + Moth, Lily Poetry Review, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere. Jules is an Emeritus Master Gardener, recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, and former Court Appointed Special Advocate for the Thirty-first Circuit Court of Missouri.
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As a practitioner of yoga and avid nature lover, I am enthralled by this poem.