Olive Tree Bed

Tavi Stallings

Tavi Stallings is a first year English and Creative Writing double major at Lebanon Valley College. They currently reside in Maryland, where they have been writing poetry since middle school.

Trudging through leftover scraps

of slushed snow

Dreading an overdue reading

of the Odyssey

Twenty-four detailed poems

Combined in one

I feel that maybe I was guided

To make me change

I wonder curiously

Can my time here be an Odyssey

Seven months feels like twenty years

Held back drug both ways

Day and night

I contemplate

often speaking out loud

But not tonight

Tonight I long for home

My real home that is

That one

The one with

My olive tree bed