If you care,
\nit\u2019s a lot easier than you hear.
\nAll you need to know is Still Point.
\nFind the Still Point in every breath.
\nThen exhale on Still and inhale on Point.
\nStill Point Still Point Still Point
\nThe fricative st starts the exhale,
\nand the p and diphthong comes
\nfrom the pit of the gut.
\nWatch the Still Points roll on.
\nThe West flexes the chest,
\nbut the East watches
\nits stomach.
\n <\/p>\n
Actually it\u2019s easier than that. If you care, it\u2019s a lot easier than you hear. All you need to know is Still Point. Find the Still Point in every breath. Then exhale on Still and inhale on Point. Still Point Still Point Still Point The fricative st starts the exhale, and the p and diphthong comes from the pit of [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-painting-7578-by-jim-klein-x-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou don\u2019t need language.
\nJust exhale until the inhale
\nbounces off your diaphragm.
\nPush your breath away until
\nit comes back naturally
\n(like Mickey Rooney
\nteaching young Liz Talyor
\nto ride a horse
\nin National Velvet.)
\n
\n
\nJim Klein has published more than 100 poems in publications including The Berkeley Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Joe Soap\u2019s Canoe, Oxford Magazine, The Plastic Tower, Onthebus, Pulpsmith, Gandhabba, and many times in The Wormwood Review,<\/em> including a Feature Section. He has also published articles in The Christian Century, James Joyce Quarterly, College English<\/em>. He started two literary magazines, Lunch, at Fairleigh Dickinson, Rutherford, in the seventies, and currently The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. Blue Chevies<\/em>, his first book, came out in September, 2008, and To Eat Is Human Digest Divine<\/em> in 2009. Trinis Talk Like the Birds<\/em>, a chapbook, is on the online magazine Muse-Pie this month and be available in hard copy soon. He has been leading a workshop of Red Wheelbarrow poets in Rutherford for the past six years. He edits The Red Wheelbarrow literary magazine. He reads regularly at The Williams Center and Gaineville Caf\u00e9 in Rutherford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"