Cover Photo: This is a photograph of the milky way. The stars are vivid and the sky is blue and purple and black.
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Sitting On a Bed In The Middle Of The Milky Way

This poem was written by Ahmed Zaid in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis.

as it rotates around the sun that rotates around the thing that also rotates around.

spiraling holes that suck attention. Ache, an uninvited meteor

stingy with awareness, can with donated looks open cluster of clusters of young stars.

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Ahmed Zaid

Ahmed Zaid is a poet and a soccer coach. His first manuscript is City Of Mispronounced Flower (in progress). His work displays the double-conscioused lives of Arab Americans and the blurs of torn/undefined/warful homes.

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