Shavasana
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Once again, the field rehearses how to die.
Some of the grass turns golden first. Some
simply fades into brown. Just this morning,
I, too, lay in corpse pose, practicing
how to let myself be totally held by the earth
without striving, how to meet the day
without rushing off to do the next necessary
or beautiful thing. Soon, the grass will bend
or break, molder or disintegrate. Every year,
the same lesson in how to join
the darkness, how to be unmade, how quietly
we might lean into the uncertainty,
how generous the ground.
Read this and other poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in Hush, from Middle Creek Publishing (2020), available for purchase online.
This poem from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s luminous collection, Hush, challenges our typical fears of the cycles