Shavasana
Rent from DeepDyve- Shavasana
The session ends with corpse pose. Try to let go and sink into the floor.
Soften the root of your tongue. Release your brain to the back of your head.
Watch your soul board a little spaceship and flare through a wormhole
that looks suspiciously like a belly button. When each slow breath travels up from your base,
gives a little wave and passes near the solar plexus, let it open your throat
and slip out your slackened mouth. Should you think again how talented is death,
let it go. Return to silence. [End Page 67]
Mary Jo Thompson’s work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2011 and Another and Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series. Her poetry also appears or is forthcoming in literary journals including Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Indiana Review, Carolina Quarterly, Great River Review, Sows Ear Poetry Review, and Minnesota Monthly, among others. She holds an mfa in creative writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
