clouds outside airplane's window
immense, white on blue, cumulonimbus
clutching our flight, as I clutch 'Cocoroco'
takeoff forgotten, along with young eyes
only that rubber rainbow rooster traveling beside
a happy wake-up sound, squeezed in bellow
landing is distant too, billows and below
many loose threads of rain-forest ends
-cec
submitted to a Seattle cultural organization's, "Landings" Literature Project.