Sunday 14 July 2019

Airport Protest (January 29, 2017) by James Croal Jackson

Photograph by Daniel Arauz from Flickr

Planes have stopped searching the air for answers
as the crowd gathers into the terminal, fists up.

For once, we are made of metal– wings to give
the silenced flight. We mobilize on the ground

with footsteps of thunder, voices of titanium.
In rising, we promise to fly, scan the landscape

for green landings. Drop the ladders down,
worry about the pressure– not the altitude.

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James Croal Jackson edits The Mantle (themantlepoetry.com). Currently, he works in the film industry in Pittsburgh, PA. (jimjakk.com)

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