Wake with attention
to the connection of
you to earth:
the spiral of energy
from underneath you
calling.
Relax. Respond. Relax.
Our bodies yearn for
the earth.
Our nest is soil, and plant,
rock and water’s edge.
Breathe in slow and release
tension.
Soften the eyes, the jaw,
the root of the tongue.
Let the list forming in
the mind
fade, remain unfinished.
Attend. Attune.
The morning is here.
Gently sway and rock yourself awake:
legs as windshield wipers,
or pressing one hip into the bed
and now the other,
Back and forth.
Back and forth.
Awaken the spine.
Trust.
Balance your energy
side to side.
back to front.
up and down.
inside and outside the body.
Imagine the outline of you is not
the mark of the dead, not a chalked
impression–
but a sphere.
Imagine we walk as spheres,
da Vinci-style;
fill your sphere with curiousity.
What will I meet today?
Breathe a balance
inhale and exhale
like the two loops
of an infinity symbol.
You face what is in front of you.
You honour what is behind you.
Bowing to the spirit within you.
Look in, look out.
The murmuration of swallows, of starlings,
show you the way.