Breakfast

Free headphones all
the way (and dinner, breakfast,
light meal, dinner, continental

breakfast, breakfast)
so that 100 miles out of Bahrain
they interrupt The Creation

for a duty-free announcement
and every time the plane
takes off, a steward speaks

of likely rescue: I have important
safety information I
must tell you. Fingers of south,

*
the white of cloud,
the trees still blowing inland
from the coast to help you

memorize the exits, and high above
...