Hot Yoga Is a Lie
In the 113 degree yoga room
the animal bend of my body peers
through time until I see flashing swords
pointing the way to the tree of life,
Eve slicing peaches for Rilke.
We cannot know. We love our voids.
I walk home, my hair and belly wet,
I see a not right man knit his arms
around a lamp post. I see a line of babies
tied to a rope marching into a park. I see
a giant dog taking a shit on a pizza sized
patch of grass while his sorority girl
in a pj set examines his straining.
I am reminded once again
our lives begin and end in bondage.
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Ooo “the animal bend of my body” and “we love our voids” are great. And the babies! Great imagery throughout. I was just thinking at the gym today what sort of poems are going to come out of my workouts this month. … I do not get the title but I will ponder it. Good work!
I don’t get the title either honestly; I googled “hot yoga” thinking that I should use another word for the practice, and Vice had an article titled “Hot Yoga is a Lie” and I was so struck by their headline, I was helpless not to use it!
Ha! A hilarious poem with some deep undercurrents. Love it!
Thank you, Kevin! I loved your poem today, and we both had shitting dogs in them.
I know! Great minds shit alike. 😏
Amazing- I am stopped in my tracks.
Man. The “line of babies tied to a rope” is epic! Lots a great moments in this one.
Also, hot yoga smells like 100 sweaty butts wearing old wet shoes and is my ultimate nightmare. Never again. 😂
You had me at the title
ending with like Hot yoga,
just another bondage
I heard about something called “beer yoga” yesterday. I am not making this up. I think I would prefer it to hot yoga! Seriously, I love the poem. I think hot yoga would be tantamount to torture.
Love the list of things you see and how it concludes in the ending two lines.
“Eve slicing peaches for Rilke.” Oh, mercy. That’s the whole thing, isn’t it?
This is a great poem!
Amen sister! “Our lives begin and end in bondage”
And in between an animal takes a big shit somewhere in our bubble!
I so love that last line, given all the images leading up to it. Wow!