Breakfast in Aleppo
by Peter Balakian
Muhamara, fig jam, zatar,
thin pita like soft parchment.
I’m eating earth and air
as I fold it over cracked green olives.
Peter Balakian’s recent book of poems is Ziggurat (University of Chicago Press, 2010). He teaches at Colgate University.
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