This daily yoga works like medicine –
it makes me heed the status of my head
and heart; it eases aches in skeleton,
and limbers me for all the moves ahead.
It seems to fuel me more than any bread.
I wish the folks I care for would attend
to words I say that gently recommend
they take the mat themselves. But I recall
my daughter had to urge three times, to bend
my will to try this practice, after all.