Monday, 7 December 2015

A is for Airport: Leaving home for 3 months

We start our year of travel leaving Johannesburg for Perth from OR Tambo, and my alphabet listing will start too, airports, flight kilometres, cities, countries, the possibilities are endless and how I love the action of tracking and listing while I travel.



Takeoff
by Timothy Steele

Our jet storms down the runway, tilts up, lifts:
We're airborne, and each second we see more-
Outlying hangars, wetlands with a pond
That flashes like sheened silver and, beyond
An estuary and the frozen drifts
Of breakers wide and while along a shore

One watches, cheek in palm. How little wight
The world has as it swiftly drops away
How quietly the mind climbs to this height
As now, the seat-belt signed turned off, a flight
Attendant rises to negotiate 
The steep aisle to a curtained service bay.

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