PLEASURE FLIGHT
from five hundred feet
the funfair rides are toys
to reach down for
model cars move
along the streets
of a model village
matchstick men
are laid out
on a sandy foreshore
tractor trails in fields
are finger-writing
islands along the creek
are mud-pies with a green top
only the sea
and the sky
retain their real size
during descent
we and our stomachs
contract
© GERALD ENGLAND
Composed: Clacton on Sea, 20th September 1981
Publication
1982 Harvest (USA)
