On the plane you don't rent the headphones
so while you read your book
occasionally up from the plane's low drone
a laughter arises around you
a hearty American laughter
scary and sudden
as the recordings in a haunted house
and the gods that rise out of that laughter
tell of their days at boarding school
of a sad day at the library
say freedom is raised like a puma
in some girl's garage and that your life
my life my life
endless endless rain noise
these gods with hair of girandoles
floating over the tray tables
Dawn Corrigan is an associate editor at Girls with Insurance. Her work has appeared in a number of print and online journals, most recently at 14 by 14 and on the otis nebula site. She'll be reading at the Prick of the Spindle - Dogzplot Reading in Pensacola on June 19, along with J. Bradley, Benjamin Lowenkron, Erin McKnight, Cynthia Reeser, Amy Riddell, and Elizabeth Westmark. Dogzplot's Barry Graham, author of The National Virginity Pledge, will be videotaping the event.
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