All cocktail napkins
using the same small poem—
we can do better:
Sipping and snacking,
remembering your masking—
Modern air travel.
Between sips and snacks
while at 30,000 feet,
the mask must go back.
Please return your mask
to its upright position
between sips and snacks.
San Francisco to Dallas, July 2021
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Texas heat
washed clean—
Summer storm.
A thousand conversations
all at once—
Cicadas.
Beacon guiding home
all drunken Texas cowboys—
Town water towers.
Dallas to San Francisco, July 2021
Ken Owen Van Niddy Press
