http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/crash/---my poem is based on the 7th picture, the one of two men standing on a plane.
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"Wind"
Silver platter streets watch as
up climbs a plane, rugged and bare.
All rickety wings and rusted tails--
made slippery with rushing wind.
You stand on this surface,
crude and dangerous. You are
air, spinning through wind like a top
on a playground.
Howling cries of angry trees
send shivers of freezing breath.
But you spread your arms wide
and tiptoe ahead:
a God in a world of adventure.
And somehow it seems
that this just it.
Joy floods through your limbs and out
through your skin.
For in a life that's too short,
what else can you do?
