Category Archives: Health

Although I didn’t sleep enough last night(awake from 3 to 5, I read a lot),and though I had a headache near my right-side temple, I’m discovering I’m notperforming poorly. Finding that I’ve gotsufficient stamina for exercise,sufficient brain and less of … Continue reading →

A bladder of burlap has settled on shore,a sandbag that’s lost all its fill.With each ebbing wave it’s inflated once more –then breakers deplete it untilit’s flattened on sand and conforming to floor.So I am inspiring, withdrawing, to spillmy exhalation … Continue reading →

Her meanness can’t be keeping her alive,but maybe it’s the boon anxietyunmedicated prompting her to thrive.Last night I screened a documentaryon Xanax and its kind, that let me seedisquiet triggers minds to process more,while meds depress the brain’s activity,and steady … Continue reading →

I think I might have balanced overlongon my left leg (I wobble since the dayI misstepped on my stairs – I’m not as strongon port as starboard), for it’s with dismayI sense an ache in hip, a twinge that’s wrongin … Continue reading →

My mother can’t get down upon the floor,and up again is even harder still.She’s 98 – you’re 70 plus 4 –the exercise is not a test of skill.It takes exertion that needs more of willthan sinew. Don’t surrender easily.Make up-and-down … Continue reading →

Reviewing poems I wrote 2 years ago,recording state of muscles, vigor, skin,and skeleton, those iambs did bestowa roster of impressions on my age.I never guessed, so little did I know,the benefits from yoga every day.At home, at ease, I regain … Continue reading →

This daily yoga works like medicine –it makes me heed the status of my headand 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 … Continue reading →

It doesn’t bother me, that nights are splitby aging into sleeps of brevity.It seems among all change appropriate.It doesn’t bother me. I won’t take melatonin, herbal tea,or drugs my peers consider requisite.I don’t use exercise as remedy. But management of … Continue reading →

I’m limbered now and ready for this phase.I sit, knees out, feet meeting sole to sole.I morning-took the mat eleven days –the constancy my one and only goal –and lately it is redefining whole.Massaging arch to joints to toes, my … Continue reading →

As if the sabbath happened one day late,last Tuesday was the yoga day of rest.We breathed and stretched so slowly on Day 8,twelve hundred seconds wasn’t any testof stamina. But time to sense the stateof sinew, bone, and muscle was … Continue reading →