Survivor’s Gift
Abu Bakr Sadiq Wins a 2024 Zócalo Poetry Prize Honorable Mention Award
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize four honorable mention submissions for 2024.
a garden of irises now grows where my family’s
favorite shopping mall used to be
in the end, i learn, even time
surrenders itself to memory
in my dreams, i watch women who raised me pack
faded family photographs into emptied pillowcases
like shadows children trail blindly behind parents
on the road to refugee camps outside the country
a woman …
