YOGA PUPPY

YOGA CLASS PUPPY

I saw a little girl in yoga class

4 ft 10in 80 lbs all smooth formed

Flesh.  I thought, “She will have it easy.”

The teacher asked, “Is anyone new?”

She didn’t raise her hand but

When class began she could not do the

Moves.  There was no impediment,

no age nor body fat.

She just flopped around like a ragdoll.

She could

Put her small body at angles

no stiff adult could achieve

But she had no control over it.

She wasn’t even trying to get things right.

We would all be trembling with the effort

Of stretching muscles wall to wall- she would not try

At all.  She would just flop around, a fish

Out of water, a puppy off her leash

Running manic in the park.

The class moved on to balance. She didn’t

Have any.  She just kept falling over and right away gave up.

The rest of us struggled and sweated and tried to

Achieve the pose. We worked to position our feet

And hands with elegance and grace and get

It just right.  She was never on point like the rest

Of us, a sign she didn’t know what she was doing.

Sometimes she would roll over a hip or bend her knee

At an angle no grownup ever could achieve but it wasn’t

 The correct pose, just random movement she could do.

She looked confused, yet unaware of what was

Different. Just like a puppy

Who couldn’t control what her muscles were doing.