Gedichte zum Thema: airport

Gedichte zum Thema „airport“ auf Poets.by.

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Dave Bonta

Love Song to a Mobile Device

Ah my oddment, my life sentence, my spool. How you noodle and unrevel me when you get out of hand! The butterflies in my stomach must be searching for their missing mouthparts. (Let them eat ache.) The insecurity screeners at the airport made me prove I could turn you on, but in the plane they lied and told me you would mess with their instruments. Everyone disapproves of us. They hate our freedoms but love how trackable we’ve become: one set of footprints,
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NachdenklichHans Ostrom

At Gate 17

An old woman in an airport, sunken cheeks, turns toward a window where sky comes in and we can see metal villages take off, glide down. Her face suggests she knows how society got this frenzied, worried, driven to vacate. She may know too where each of us is going, returning from, and why airports reek of grief— her face is a rare manuscript of grief. Her years spiral slowly in memory like a galaxy. Her attachments drift aboard