gliding over the white soil of cloud
the plane seems to idle
in a blue void
until it descends
beneath the weightless ground
into stark dawn
where a new, anxious sun
peeks over the skyline
like a child’s eye
having found
its lost toy.
Jack Forbes is a teacher and writer, based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. As an emerging poet, his work has appeared internationally, including Schoolcraft College’s ‘MacGuffin,’ the Eunoia Review, AAWP’s ‘Meniscus,’ the Purposeful Mayonnaise, and The Suburban Review. He recently completed a debut chapbook of poems entitled ’50 on Somerville Road’.
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