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Airport

Sara Crawford

The music of words from twelve different languages
fill her ears.
They all sound the same.
The business man flips through the newspaper.
Headlines read
“Many foreclosures don’t go through”
“Investors get a better picture”
“Imbalance in Net speed frustrates many”
the printed words
the photographs
What color are my wife’s eyes?
I don’t remember.

A mother waits.
Her dark eyes scan the crowds,
coffee held in her worn hand
the color of earth
Searching.
I have so much to say.
She’s been gone so long, my daughter.

Distractions and colors.
Cities light up on the board
flashing
Austin: Delayed.
Kansas City: Delayed.
Not hers.
It’s so cold in here.
What time is it?
She looks at the businessman’s cell phone, peaking
out of his pocket.
It gives her the time.
Time to go.

Walking through security.
Strip down.
Shoes off, necklace off, earrings off, belt off, keys in the bucket.
It still beeps.
Security guard finds some unnoticed change in her pocket.
Maybe he’ll send her back.
Delayed.

She walks past vendors
selling overpriced food and magazines.
She tries to find her flight
sits down in front of the gate.
Boarding.
Now boarding.

This is it.
There’s nothing else to do
except walk onto a machine that will send her to you.
What if we crash?
What if our wings fall off?

(Send a white bird up into the air
to her.
It will smile at her through the window
and she will know warmth.)

She walks onto the plane,
finds her seat beside a pair of blissful lovers.
She sits.
Waiting.

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