Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Muladhara

I’m working on my Root Chakra
this morning. When you give me a back-rub,
I always hope you’ll get down to the tailbone.

So, how sweetly my garden
grows when I give myself a tailbone-rub,
as I stretch out all my bones

supine on my foam bar
(raising and lowering my sacroiliac twelve inches
through the mystic leverage of the Root Chakra);

or raising my feet to the ceiling
because I’m on a date with Beelzebub,
the tutelary demon of the tailbone

(they neck and grope up there
like teenagers in love);
now standing on just one foot, spreading my toes
—

hands together in praying
(or else reaching my arms wide
and spotting for balance with my wonky eye).
So sexy when the floor gives me a foot-rub!