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The Bardo 
​by Anna Evas

Vested in bright green, he surveys the parking lot 
for shopping carts, then drives them one-by-one 
into metal corrals. A more able employee will herd them 
into the store with a motorized rig. The laborer appears 
to like his job, and goes about his business covering 
several miles per work day. Does it occur to him 
he owes his employment to customer discourtesy? 
His limp hinders him a little, and his earbud 
listens with spousal forbearance. 

For many days now I observe him from my car 
that’s also my house. His disabilities borne, 
my homelessness endured, nothing can keep us 
down when love is felt from any quarter. There's 
something intelligent about stacking shopping carts 
into a stall where emptiness, like folded hands, 
waits for fulfillment. 

Anna Evas
In addition to her full-length poetry book Apocryphal (San Francisco Press), Anna Evas has appeared in literary journals such as THINK Journal, Long Poem Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Orchards Poetry Review, Irises (The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize), The Ekphrastic Review, Euphony, Anglican Theological Review, and others. A recording artist and an award-winning composer of concert-level contemporary classical music, she finds that poetry (using Bach's phrase) is "recreation for the soul."

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