Pandemic Padmasana

All winter, banned from studio-churches, yogis
Steamed up basements and bathrooms, making it hot.
All summer, outdoors; core, intercostals, constant
State, and source, of
Sore.

The state of Alabama, (still sore, cross, about
Christian prayer), finally
Lifts ban on yoga at school, but not the one on
Sanskrit.

Yoga lifts buns, butt, ban on body soreness and
Sources, soars, state of
Spirit.

Asanas as
Stations of the (hot)
Cross.

A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers, Julie Benesh is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant and her writing can be found in Bestial Noise: A Tin House Fiction Reader, Tin House Magazine (print), Crab Orchard Review, Florida Review, Gulf Stream, Hobart, New World Writing, Cleaver, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and many other places. Read more at juliebenesh.com.