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Once Upon a Time: Stories & Poems of the Dharma
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2

Poems/Not Poems

Wakeup Call

By Meghan Collins

 
 

 

If only you can sit still
until the bottle imp has gone to sleep,
the fog will clear from the glass,
even the glass will disappear,
and the world will draw closer,
more clear, more bright, more intimate—
and for just this moment,
more itself.

 

∞

 

From the “Online Exclusives” for the Spring 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 29, No. 2)
© 2013 Meghan Collins

Author

Meghan Collins is a longtime member of Berkeley Zen Center; she received lay teacher entrustment in 2005. She is a storyteller, folk harper and author of two children’s books.

Author

Meghan Collins is a longtime member of Berkeley Zen Center; she received lay teacher entrustment in 2005. She is a storyteller, folk harper and author of two children’s books.

 
 
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