ensconced and strapped alongside
pinched cheek by cheek humans
tucked painfully between glass and armrests
harder than any actual arms
I become aware of surreal droning
not belonging to anything from nature
and the big silver bird pirouettes
on wheels seemingly too dainty
to support such ungainly girth
aluminum flanks held together
with rivets too numerous to count
every time I fly, these behemoths
defy gravity each time they take the sky
race down the runway
lift off and don't fall out of the air
S.E.Ingraham©
