Monday, November 25, 2019

Elegy

Namaste.
I’m done with my Yoga-practice.
Easy for me to say!

My friend Dave
is done with his living-practice.
Pace

vobiscum, said
the priest, as Dave's corpse
was lowered away.

Dave rests with the dead—
What an athlete he was!—
Dave’s learned the hard way

whether there’s golf in heaven,
along with life’s other sweet habits.
Namaste,

Dave, with your Robin Williams face—
done with your person-practice—
In my heart comes your reply:
Namaste.