Night FlightFirst published in Frogpond 26:3, Fall 2003, page 43. Written 18 April 2000 while flying from St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California. See also “Away.”
full moon— along the runway blue lights begin to blur
turning after takeoff the moon disappears under the wing
for a moment below in the Mississippi, a white oval
the seat-belt sign blinks back on with a beep— the moon lost in clouds
in-flight magazine: a four-letter word for lunar
movie over, the moon lightens the snow-capped mountains
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