This poem is taken from PN Review 37, Volume 10 Number 5, March - April 1984.
BreakfastFree headphones all
the way (and dinner, breakfast,
light meal, dinner, continental
breakfast, breakfast)
so that 100 miles out of Bahrain
they interrupt The Creation
for a duty-free announcement
and every time the plane
takes off, a steward speaks
of likely rescue: I have important
safety information I
must tell you. Fingers of south,
*
the white of cloud,
the trees still blowing inland
from the coast to help you
memorize the exits, and high above
...
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