Jane Blanchard

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Regimen

Let others work out at the gym!
Why emulate or envy them?
I much prefer my own routine
Within a more domestic scene.
No NordicTrack, no Peloton,
A chaise longue is what I get on.
Reclining there without complaint,
I daily exercise restraint.

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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia (USA). Her work has appeared previously in Light and recently in Alabama Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Tar River Poetry. Her latest collection is Never Enough Already (2021).