Full Flight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHIFEJKLMNOPQ RABSTUVPPWXPYZA2B2PC C2D2E2F2G2LH2LI2J2TA| I'm in a plane that will not be flown into a building | A |
| It's a SAAB seats has two engines with propellers | B |
| is why I think of beanies those hats that would spin | C |
| a young head into the clouds The plane is red and loud | D |
| inside like it must be loud in the heart red like fire | E |
| and fire engines and the woman two seats up and to the right | F |
| resembles one of the widows I saw on TV after the Towers | B |
| came down It's her hair that I recognize the fecundity of it | G |
| and the color and its obedience to an ideal the shape | H |
| it was asked several hours ago to hold and has held a kind | I |
| of wave that begins at the forehead and repeats with slight | F |
| variations all the way to the tips as if she were water | E |
| and a pebble had been continuously dropped into the mouth | J |
| of her existence We are eighteen thousand feet over America | K |
| People are typing at their laps blowing across the fog of coffee | L |
| sleeping with their heads on the windows on the pattern | M |
| of green fields and brown fields streams and gas stations | N |
| and swimming pools blue dots of aquamarine that suggest | O |
| we've domesticated the mirage We had to kill someone | P |
| I believe when the metal bones burned and the top | Q |
| fell through the bottom and a cloud made of dust and memos | R |
| and skin muscled across Manhattan I remember feeling | A |
| I could finally touch a rifle that some murders | B |
| are an illumination of ethics that they act as a word | S |
| a motion the brain requires for which there is | T |
| no syllable no breath The moment the planes had stopped | U |
| when we were afraid of the sky there was a pause | V |
| when we could have been perfectly American | P |
| could have spent infinity dollars and thrown a million | P |
| bodies at finding the few lasering our revenge | W |
| into a kind of love the blood hunger kept exact | X |
| and more convincing for its precision an expression | P |
| of our belief that proximity is never the measure of guilt | Y |
| We've lived in the sky again for some years and today | Z |
| on my lap these pictures from Iraq naked bodies | A2 |
| stacked into a pyramid of ha ha and the articles | B2 |
| about broomsticks up the ass and the limbs of children | P |
| turned into stubble we are punch drunk and getting even | C |
| with the sand with the map with oil with ourselves | C2 |
| I think listening to the guys behind me There's a problem | D2 |
| in Alpena with an inventory control system some switches | E2 |
| are being counted twice switches for what I don't know | F2 |
| switches of humor of faith but the men are musical | G2 |
| in their jargon both likely born in New Delhi | L |
| and probably Americans now which is what the flesh | H2 |
| of this country has been a grafted pulse an inventory | L |
| of the world and just as the idea of embrace | I2 |
| moves chemically into my blood and I'm warmed | J2 |
| as if I've just taken a drink a voice announces | T |
| we've begun our descent and then I sense the falling | A |
Bob Hicok
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