Tuesday poem #253 : Jay Ritchie : Green from yellow to black

For the month of June you are a flight attendant.

You take people

to faraway places like Sault Ste. Marie

& Newark. I wish I could take you

to the place I go when I am alone.

It’s so nice here.

I wish you could see it.

It’s raining small.

Are the windows open?

There are no buildings.

Jay Ritchie [photo credit: Stacy Lee] is the author of the poetry collection Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie (Coach House, 2017). He is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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