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Lotus Pose
By Corie Feiner When I cross the fleshy pink petals of my feet onto the long leaves of my supple thighs, I become a sacred aching flower whose spine is rooted in riverbed mud, whose hands wake and die with each day and night, whose belly holds circles of seeds that are full of who I am and who I want to be. I tell myself that to be reborn takes courage. That I could stay stuck in the murky waters of my life, but that if I want to grow, really grow, I need to unfurl and reach towards the sun every damn day, and let my blood flow fully into the pit of my stomach, my liver, my spleen, let my hips stretch open as if I could hold anything in my womb— a sacred fruit, a small god who says, Don’t you know we can all be divine? …