The following poem appears in our upcoming Fall/Winter 2020 issue. Subscribe today to read the rest of Beth’s poem and the entire issue.
1.
Buddha probably knew
but forgot to mention
someone has to pay the bills
buy eggs and milk
drop the kids at school
and remember them later.
Center yourself in that, he’d say.
2.
Nothing is important
and everything matters:
this mystery that keeps
you awake.
3.
Collect your tears in colorless jars.
Line them up.
See how their cracks
bend the sunlight.
4.
Don’t sin against your talent.
Let teaching be your penance.
Let silence be your teacher.
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BETH WALKER’S work has recently appeared in Persephone’s Daughters, Still Points Arts Quarterly, Storm Cellar, and South85, among others. A piece of flash fiction was a top ten finalist in this year’s Hemingway Shorts fiction competition, sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.
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