Flight 93

These are poems about flight, poems about flying, and poems about flights of fancy like those of Peter Pan ...

"Flight 93" is a sonnet I wrote in response to the events of 9-11 ...

Flight 93
by Michael R. Burch

I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked
why existence felt so small, so purposeless,
like a minnow wriggling feebly in my grasp ...

vibrations of huge engines thrummed my arms
as, glistening with sweat, I nudged the switch
to OFF ... I heard the klaxon's shrill alarms