Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Day 27. When I Was Five

Sunday morning, Dad would take me flying Just the two of us, in his tiny plane

His plane was just right for the two us
Tilting in the wind, we flew over green fields
The fields slid green and ripe beneath us As we skimmed the grass and landed fast
We landed near a hangar, open to the gass
filled with long tables and the smell of pancakes
Tables groaned under mounds of pancakes In the hangar where pilots flew in to swap stories
Hangar-flying - pilots swapping stories-
tied us together, strangers meeting to share
We shared breakfast together, strangers no more, because Sunday morning, Dad would take me flying.

Prompt: Write a "duplex"poem - a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown.

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