Sirsasana (The Headstand)
Decapitaphobia: fear of snapping off
one’s head like the end of a stringbean.
Also bars the somersault,
even imagining the headstand.
Perhaps I can sneak up on it,
Walk in backwards,
Roll to my shoulders
And stay there, belly threatening
To engulf head. Nevertheless,
I am proud of this ungracious pose,
Even though not sirsasana.
I would go further and do the plow
But am hampered by tightly wound hamstrings.
In any case backwards is not forwards.
No longer a stringbean,
Must practice courage.