Seconds Before Landing
Catherine Wing | Poetry
Would you take a look at that?
The ground rising below
your knees and cuffs and shoes
to meet you as it must
and is its business.
And how the various things
now coming into focus
calling out to you
tree branches, street lamps,
is that a parking lot, a bird
from your bird’s eye view,
crow perhaps, due southward
now a brief spot in front of the sun.
All the world a-dangle
from your daredevil streak.
Gravity of a moment
stalling in the brain
until, of course, it doesn’t.
Catherine Wing is the author of two collections of poetry, Enter Invisible (Sarabande Books, 2005) and Gin & Bleach (Sarabande Books, 2008). Her poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, The Nation, and The New Republic, featured on The Writer’s Almanac, and included in Best American Erotic Poems. She teaches at Kent State University and with the NEO-MFA, the nation’s only consortial program in Creative Writing.
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