Travel Mash-Up Poem using borrowed lines from John Burroughs and Thomas Hood
Unsmooth Landing
Serene, I fold my hands and wait (“Waiting,” John Burroughs)
E-Ticket ready, airport gate
Off to Berlin, red-eye boarding
Reading, writing, sleep affording
With eyelids heavy and red (“Song of the Shirt,” Thomas Hood)
19-B, neck pillow bed
Fast asleep, bumpy landing instead
Wait. Where am I?
Home, in bed.
-Kim Johnson, using borrowed lines from John Burroughs and Thomas Hood