Away
First
published in Lights #1, April 2020, from
Pleasure Boat Studio, page 97. Originally written on 6 August 2019, in the
air between Chicago, Illinois and Greensboro, North Carolina. See also “Night
Flight.” + eastward-bound— a gibbous moon reflecting on the wing lights of an unknown town through a break in the clouds the sun’s last rays catching the fuselage of a jet above us distant thunderhead glowing for a moment with lightning rumours back home tonight of the aurora borealis sudden turbulence . . . in the dark I whisper your name  |