North West Flight 605

^{By Annette Gagliardi}

Blue seats in neat rows-
Narrow in between
The gauntlet of passage
slows the passenger stream.

Blue uniforms work
their way backward.
Coffee? Tea? Soda?
Making the impatient wait.

Seat belts on-
Window shades down,
heads nod in repose
as we sleep in our clothes.

Above the clouds
sunshine glows.
Thirty-two thousand feel high,
how very fast we fly!