Airplane Poem // Louis Faber // Poetry
AIRPLANE POEM He points to a poem in his book, “ This was an airplane poem. ” I read it carefully but cannot find even a hint of a plane, or of the sky for that matter, it is about a lake and an older woman bidding it farewell knowing her time has run short and the cancer is ready to claim her. I ask if he knew the woman, and with a sad face he nods yes, “she was my mother and this happened many years ago, but it is still fresh in my mind even though I was not there that day, off on another business trip to God knows where but He doesn’t care.” I want to ask him why it is an airplane poem but I suspect it is because that is where he was when the events occurred, where he was when she finally conceded to the cancer. Louis Faber is a poet and writer. His work has appeared in MacGuffin, Cantos, Alchemy Spoon (UK), Meniscus and Arena Magazine (Australia) New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Prosetrics, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism...
