a winter place, Omar Zahzah

where trees bear flickering lamps

where home is always that much farther

where sleep is the bread you break

tomorrow a sunken bone

where spiders weave silence

where trees thread silence

where home won’t leave

where sleep bears mold

tomorrow buried over

where silence winds over

spiders, and over

trees, and home.

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Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet and organizer. Several of Omar's poems were featured in the anthology, Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry. In 2016, Omar’s chapbook 13 Almost Love Poems was released. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Twitter: @dromarzahzah