North West Flight 605
flying
North West Flight 605
By Annette Gagliardi
Blue seats in neat rows-
Narrow in between
The gauntlet of passage
slows the passenger stream.
Blue uniforms work
their way backward.
Coffee? Tea? Soda?
Making the impatient wait.
Seat belts on-
Window shades down,
heads nod in repose
as we sleep in our clothes.
Above the clouds
sunshine glows.
Thirty-two thousand feel high,
how very fast we fly!
Asiatic Lilies
Fly Away
by A.Gagliardi
I will fly away
from all this
doing, running, struggling
living our life.
I will fly away
from you
and your strong emotions
opinions, intensity, too.
I will fly
away for a time
because we make our life together
too sublime.
I will fly away
and come back again
because you are my beginning
and my end.