By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 1 pm 28/06 Australian EST
Prompt 15: There are very few poems about air travel, even though there are a lot about driving, train travel, and subway commuting. Your prompt this hour is to write a poem about a plane trip.
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{Gravity}
This time gravity went straight to the heart.
Imagine that!
The private passion touched my cortex
which, pre-erupted a skin dive sitting on that plane.
That ecstatic connection, the richness of us
flying over the hinterland all lush and fecund – just like you.
Step by step passion boogied down through the onion skin layers
in the expectation and hesitation I was swept away in fantasy.
You little lion tamer you!
Did you think you could get away with it? Playing catch me if you can?
Lulling me into a false sense of security? Not this time baby!
When I’m on solid ground surrounded by my heartlands
My equilibrium will return. Am I deluding myself?
I need you to know that you won’t get your wicked way.
I’m not straightening up for your coquettishness.
My weakness is a space between who I am and who you want me to be
but you won’t snare me this time!
Yet when I really look, what do I see?
The glistening ocean from the plane window – the deep green meandering rivers flashing by
Is it the illusion of sky reflected in the water
or, the illusion of water appearing in the sky?
A giant mirage with you the disappearing oasis.
We are fooled by these games of hide and seek, lost between reality, reverie and dream.
My thoughts scramble for order as we prepare for landing
I ready myself for my favourite treat – reverse thrust
I could ride the exhilaration of reverse thrust forever
But with you? I’m not so sure.
But you’re so so beguiling in your persistence.