Sunday, May 19, 2019

Travel Mash-Up Poem using borrowed lines from John Burroughs and Thomas Hood





Unsmooth Landing

Serene, I fold my hands and wait ("Waiting," John Burroughs)
E-Ticket ready, airport gate
Off to Berlin, red-eye boarding
Reading, writing, sleep affording

With eyelids heavy and red ("Song of the Shirt," Thomas Hood)
19-B, neck pillow bed
Fast asleep, bumpy landing instead
Wait. Where am I?
          Home, in bed. 

-Kim Johnson, using borrowed lines from John Burroughs and Thomas Hood

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