Up in the Air
Do you have any legroom up front,
what is the view like from your seat
and do you know the atmosphere;
can you tell cumulus from cirrus?
Have you heard of the supercooled drops
which at high altitudes, sub-zero temperatures
remain stubbornly liquid, perfectly balanced?
Sitting here, in seat 25A, I feel like one.
I watch the shade we drape across fields,
see a small cloud pass underneath us
and for one liminal instant
it agrees perfectly with the dark splash
of its shadow, and have you ever
met someone and felt like that
your odd, lumpy shapes
matching each other?
L.B. Jørgensen lived in England for several years before returning to her native Denmark, where she works as a translator. She has had poems published in Poetry Salzburg Review, Under the Radar and The North.