Poetry in Public: Places of Landing

Poems will replace advertising on public transit, enlivening commutes across King County.

Poetry in Public celebrates local voices by featuring poems written by King County residents in shared spaces. This year’s theme, Places of Landing, embraces the poetry of our daily lives. It honors the movements, places, and feelings that tell the stories of our days. Everyone can be a poet!

Featured Poet

Jody Tate

Seattle

Featured image for Homeward

Homeward

We’re an overflow pour
of people, a random crowd

of rain-glittered coats, yet
we streamline and board the bus step

by step—a single-file
promise each makes to the other,

leaning homeward like herons
easing wing by wing

together over shining tidelands,
over outbursts of evergreens.

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