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Return Flight<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tired sunburned passengers<\/p>\n flying home from vacations<\/p>\n <\/p>\n puzzle over Sudoku and crosswords<\/p>\n doze against strangers’ shoulders<\/p>\n <\/p>\n read thrillers and airline magazines<\/p>\n grudgingly answer email on laptops<\/p>\n <\/p>\n watch Game of Thrones on iPads<\/p>\n draw pictures of Harry Potter characters<\/p>\n <\/p>\n pray that the big guy doesn’t recline<\/p>\n snack on mini pretzels<\/p>\n <\/p>\n sip coffee and orange juice<\/p>\n retract elbows, shoulders and feet<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to evade the drinks cart<\/p>\n and wide-hipped passengers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n charging down the aisle<\/p>\n doze off with nodding heads<\/p>\n <\/p>\n startle themselves awake with snorts<\/p>\n escort kids to the toilets<\/p>\n <\/p>\n curse the airline for lack of legroom<\/p>\n and exorbitant alcohol prices<\/p>\n <\/p>\n scroll through photos on phones<\/p>\n searching for elusive images<\/p>\n <\/p>\n capturing the happiest, most exciting<\/p>\n and beautiful moments<\/p>\n <\/p>\n editing the decent and deleting the crap<\/p>\n like revisionist historians<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nathanael O\u2019Reilly<\/strong> is an Australian residing in Texas. His books include Preparations for Departure<\/em><\/a>, Distance<\/em><\/a>, Cult<\/em>, Suburban Exile <\/em>and Symptoms of Homesickness<\/em>. His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies from nine countries, including Antipodes<\/em>, Cordite<\/em>, Glasgow Review of Books<\/em>, Mascara<\/em>, Postcolonial Text<\/em>, Tincture<\/em> and Verity La<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Return Flight Tired sunburned passengers flying home from vacations puzzle over Sudoku and crosswords doze against strangers’ shoulders read thrillers and airline magazines grudgingly answer email on laptops watch Game of Thrones on iPads draw pictures of Harry Potter characters pray that the big guy doesn’t recline snack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15766,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15667\/revisions\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}