air travel – michael jarmer

#586: Literature Only: Another Air Travel Poem

Hi, there. Sure is nice seeing you here at 30,000 feet. Feel free to enable, open, scan, and browse, but please note, you can place literature only inside the plastic pouch above your upright tray table. Anything decidedly not literature, you’ll have to place elsewhere. I know you’re already frustrated with the free-for-all nature ofContinue reading “#586: Literature Only: Another Air Travel Poem”

#585: Keeping the Baby

I’m not making this up. The airline steward gets on the microphone at the gate to announce that any families with babies need to be forewarned: if the baby smiles at him, he says, he’s taking the baby, he’s keeping the baby.

#559: There is something odd and possibly wrong

(Here’s a poem loosely modeled after a formal structure invented by Donald Justice. It was yesterday’s prompt from NaPoWriMo, but I found it especially challenging. This one took me two days) I There is something odd and possibly wrong about writing a poem with the Notes app, at a gate in the Atlanta airport, no less.FewerContinue reading “#559: There is something odd and possibly wrong”