Breakfast for Calm
Stomach rumbling, I drank tea first and ate tofu.
My body aflame with hidden feeling. Neck tight.
Once rising, out of my body, I floated down a river of dying.
Steering a kayak, in moonlit warm waters, around peaked waves.
Reaching body, neglected and bland, I raised arms overhead,
My spine uncurls with gathered objects. Wrists crackle.
Books, bags, cups, mask: Yesterday’s urgent aches wane.
In the beginning, I hope for constancy. Later, rushing, inconstancy.
After I eat, my body wants to run with music and joy.
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