luxury cat

downward dog

craving relief

get the pressure

is my neck venerable enough in a child’s pose

for you to get in

and take me out?

but the child

with the dragon on her bag

that wasn’t mine

hits my weakest point

this body that knows some thing

has happened before the mind

the roses are blooming

and all that I have asked for

but

ouch that hurts me

how is this my story - I feel nothing but

paddles to the gut

pain

growing pains

teach me what has changed

how to stay instead of run

to ask where is the medicine

beyond

the girls that beat me up

and the boys that won’t grow up

I open the door of my belly to the earth

and watch myself populate the cover flowers

the lavender buds and the millions

of tree tip meristems

the pressure relived

the death of my isolation

now all I have to do is

stillness

to embody the effortless _____

of my luxury cat