Friday, April 3, 2009

bālāsana

yoga mat 4
While I was sitting at the kitchen table, I noticed that someone had left a yoga mat out on the back porch table. The ridges and valleys took on the shape of a topographical map, a desertscape, or perhaps the terraced sand after the tide goes out. I went outside, barefoot in the puddles and took pictures until it was too dark to see, but none of them truly captured the snake-black curves, the sheen of the rain.

4 comments:

Wordgirl said...

You have such an attention to words Niobe -- it's beautiful.

And I have to think when you write this that you live somewhere much warmer than I do -- a place where spring has actually arrived...


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Kristin said...

Even if it didn't capture the whole effect, that picture is fabulous.

Tash said...

The concept reminds me of the beginning of the movie "English Patient," where you're not sure if you're looking at ripples and waves in human or desert geography. Both book and movie carry the simile of naming and possessing land and body, and there are scores of academic papers/books that point to the same phenomenon here in the Americas and throughout the world.

Sorry to take that and run . . .

niobe said...

Tash: Exactly what I was thinking of...