US Air Haiku
“Implied, understood:/‘Articles may have shifted’/means mental matter.”—By Claire Bateman
By Claire Bateman
GREENVILLE South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—9/15/2014—
1.
If you intend to
waste this entire flight dozing,
cede your window seat.
2.
I’m warned I can’t save
anyone else unless I
breathe first for myself.
3.
Fine mesh curtain hides
all those first-class travelers:
sanctum sanctorum.
4.
Unseen captain hawks
MasterCard application.
No takers aboard.
5.
Disenchanting to
anticipate turbulence,
bear a silken ride.
6.
Implied, understood:
“Articles may have shifted”
means mental matter.
7.
Flight attendant chirps
“Bye now!” in flat-vowelled accent.
Must not be from here.
Note: The image used to illustrate this column derives from http://newsrender.com/trend/Knee-Defender.
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Claire Bateman
Claire Bateman’s books include Scape (New Issues Poetry & Prose); Locals (Serving House Books), The Bicycle Slow Race (Wesleyan University Press), Friction (Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize), At The Funeral Of The Ether (Ninety-Six Press, Furman University), Clumsy (New Issues Poetry & Prose), Leap (New Issues), and Coronology (Etruscan Press). She has been awarded Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Surdna Foundation, as well as two Pushcart Prizes and the New Millennium Writings 40th Anniversary Poetry Prize. She has taught at Clemson University, the Greenville Fine Arts Center, and various workshops and conferences such as Bread Loaf and Mount Holyoke. She lives in Greenville, South Carolina. (Please see Bateman’s amazon.com Author’s Page for links to all her publications, and go here for further information about the poet and her work.) (Author Head Shot Augment: René Laanen.)