Poetry in Public: Places of Landing

Poetry in Public brings communities together through the written word, celebrating local voices by featuring poems written by King County residents in shared spaces.

Our 2023-2025 theme, Places of Landing, embraces the poetry of our daily lives by honoring the movements, places, and feelings that tell the stories of our days. Everyone can be a poet!

Featured Poet

Zephyr

Seattle

Youth Poet

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Gentle Hands

My place of landing is my bed
for when my eyelids close
and my heartbeat slows,
till I am carried away,
to a vague and familiar sway
of my mom’s hands when they
gently shake me awake.

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