Samo Kreutz

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The Weight We Left

the rooms
we left
continue to breathe dust

into the stillness

and chairs
remember the weight
of our names

until memory
becomes the only language we speak

Samo Kreutz is a poet, writer and haikuist from Ljubljana, author of eighteen books published in both Slovene and English. His work has appeared in over fifty literary journals worldwide, including Fresh Words, Green Ink Poetry, and Ariel Chart. He has been nominated once for the Pushcart Prize and twice for the Touchstone Award, and between 2021–2023 was listed among the 100 most creative haiku authors in Europe. His poetry explores silence, everyday gestures, and languages that resist being read, moving between urban and natural spaces.