Linda Gregg – Jan 14,2022 Iyengar III

A poet recommended by Tracy K. Smith. Working on the wisdom to see the imperfect, in one’s Yoga practice? Generally? Here is some inspiration.

Elegance

All that is uncared for.

Left alone in the stillness

in that pure silence married

to the stillness of nature.

A door off its hinges,

shade and shadows in an empty room.

Leaks for light. Raw where

the tin roof rusted through.

The rustle of weeds in their

different kinds of air in the mornings,

year after year.

A pecan tree, and the house

made out of mud bricks. Accurate

and unexpected beauty, rattling

and singing. If not to the sun,

then to nothing and to no one.