1642: Vol de Nuit / Night Flight | Barbara Crooker

[exceptindreams]

"Vol de Nuit / Night Flight"
Barbara Crooker

Now, isn't that more elegant than
taking the Red-Eye?
And don't you love it when the flight attendant
(Remember when she used to be a stewardess?
When everything matched her uniform,
even her luggage, and her makeup was heavy
and impeccable?) hands out pillows, blankets
soft as babies' dreams, eye masks,
ear plugs

Comments

[versipellis]

I really like how this evokes the weirdness of plane travel and the sense of transition, though the romance at the end kind of surprises me compared with the light cynicism from earlier.

[secretsolitaire]

This makes me smile.

[jellagoobydoo]

love this!

[poodlemama]

Haha! Do we really think "that oxygen
miraculously drops from above if the cabin
pressure fails? That your seat cushion becomes
a life preserver if you fall into the black night
of the North Atlantic? That emergency lights
will twinkle and glow, illuminate your path
to the exit chute, little constellations of hope?"...well, we can live in hope.

[aguadora]

I loved this, thanks.

Although I wonder what he was carrying a baguette for.