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<div class="editor-content"><p><span>‘Tis a month to build and rebuild connection, strength, resilience, stamina, stability and what else? We continue to shift and shape and move together towards a loving and connected presence. We also remember, it’s okay to have fun. Join me (and Benji) for your April member’s vlog! <br><br></span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anchored-in-love-a-live-class-with-adriene-mishler-rey-cardenas-tickets-861062650567?aff=oddtdtcreator"><span style="color: #C08715">Click here for the Practice Yoga Austin Live Class on Zoom with Adriene and Rey!</span></a><span> <br><br>Poem Read: <br><br>Ode to a Cluster of Violets<br>PABLO NERUDA&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>Crisp cluster<br>plunged in shadow.<br>Drops of violet water<br>and raw sunlight<br>floated up with your scent.<br>A fresh<br>subterranean beauty<br>climbed up from your buds<br>thrilling my eyes and my life.</span></p><p><span>One at a time, flowers<br>that stretched forward<br>silvery stalks,<br>creeping closer to an obscure light<br>shoot by shoot in the shadows,<br>till they crowned<br>the mysterious mass<br>with an intense weight of perfume<br>and together<br>formed a single star<br>with a far-off scent and a purple center.</span></p><p><span>Poignant cluster<br>intimate<br>scent<br>of nature,<br>you resemble<br>a wave, or a head of hair,<br>or the gaze<br>of a ruined water nymph<br>sunk in the depths.<br>But up close,<br>in your fragrance’s<br>blue brazenness,<br>you exhale the earth,<br>an earthly flower, an earthen<br>smell and your ultraviolet<br>gleam<br>in volcanoes’ faraway fires.</span></p><p><span>Into your loveliness I sink<br>a weathered face,<br>a face that dust has often abused.<br>You deliver<br>something out of the soil.<br>It isn’t simply perfume,<br>nor simply the perfect cry<br>of your entire color, no: it’s<br>a word sprinkled with dew,<br>a flowering wetness with roots.</span></p><p><span>Fragile cluster of starry<br>violets,<br>tiny, mysterious<br>planet<br>of marine phosphorescence,<br>nocturnal bouquet nestled in green leaves:<br>the truth is<br>there is no blue word to express you.</span></p><p><span>Better than any word<br>is the pulse of your scent.</span></p></div>