Archibald MacLeish - April 18, Sunday Fun + Chair Class

A friend sent me this piece with the proviso that she didn’t think it was appropriate for a Yoga class. I read it anyway. Love/Yoga not so different. Understanding the nature of the river and the stone and their relationship - there lies the path toward wisdom.

WHAT ANY LOVER LEARNS

Water is heavy silver over stone.

Water is heavy silver over stone's

Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows

Every crevice, every fault of the stone,

Every hollow. River does not run.

River presses its heavy silver self

Down into stone and stone refuses.

What runs,

Swirling and leaping into sun, is stone's

Refusal of the river, not the river.