Adjustments: Retiring From Being A Psychotherapist

as in the yoga class

feeling hands

shift my outstretched arm 

to re-align with my hips 

and when I opened my eyes to

acknowledge the help

there was no one there,

how sometimes the adjustments

are subtle, a shift of weight, of word,

a sigh, a release of thought, anger, hurt

and sometimes  positional -

a postural habit, bones and muscles

making do, constricting form 

over 36 years of bending forward,

listening, attending

as if in prayer