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Hugh Anderson

Redeye

Outside my window:
cities are flung like galaxies
across the sky-dark earth.
In the mirror of the wing,
the moon is a pot of fire.

Between stars and earth, movement
is the white noise of engines,
murmur of midnight conversations, hiss
of recirculated air.  My tablet is tedious;
my seatmate thumbs a well-worn magazine.
Across the aisle, an old man gently snores.

No god of Olympian stature,
no up nor down
just the trundling snack cart,
tomato juice, pretzels,
and a window unsure of earth and sky

Galaxies drift on.  Words cease,
and thought;  finally we hover in blackness,
blessed .

 

Hugh Anderson lives and writes on Vancouver Island, but sometimes his prairie roots show.  He has published in numerous literary publications, but most recently in 3 Elements Review, Grain, Right Hand Pointing, The Willawaw Journal, The Tulane Review and Vallum.  He has one Pushcart Prize nomination.

 

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