Fasten Your Seat Belts / by Matthew Fleming

A good night’s sleep.

A window seat.

God pray my day finish as sweet.

Dark blue lake

heavy and swollen with what was white snow.

Geese are back; seagulls and ducks too.

Look at the handsome man in the lagoon crew.

Such a sky!

Makes me squint.

But can’t help try, so

I close my eyes and stare

until my eyes see red

and shapes and ideas come and play

and bounce around. Oh...those were potholes.