Sorry for the absence! Travel stuff

I'm traveling again this weekend, and the last two days were just so full I didn't have a minute to sit down and post. But I did write two airplane poems yesterday, which I reproduce below for your enjoyment and am counting as yesterday's post.

I'm enjoying a bit of a return to form--I didn't mean for the following poem to be so negative, but that's what the form pulled out of me. This is practice for practice's sake.

Airplane Pantoum

Steady white noise buzzing roar

pressure just this side of the door

sitting in a terrible seat

nothing available to eat

pressure just this side of the door

Visibility is poor

nothing available to eat

peanuts, insufficient meat

Visibility is poor

next to me, insufferable boor

peanuts, insufficient meat

for those who’d rather be elite

Next to me, insufferable boor

full of self and needing more

for those who’d rather be elite

to walk and stretch their dainty feet

full of self and needing more,

I turn to fantasies of gore

to walk and stretch their dainty feet

tired of who I might meet

I turn to fantasies of gore

steady white noise buzzing roar

tired of who I might meet
sitting in a terrible seat

*   *   *

crisp sky above clouds--

descent pulls my body back
to earth's awareness