Zack Rogow
FLIGHT 000
is the queasiness
when you’re about to land
and you realize that this flight
with its snow mountain geodes
and its looking-glass lakes
this flight
which could have taken you anywhere
is actually going to drum down
in one certain city
where cars ghost along the artery
and families with wounded microwaves
and actual names sleep
in those dollhouses beyond the runway
and your life is not all lives
but only the best one
you can reach
in the time you have
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of twenty books and plays. His play, Colette Uncensored, had a staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and ran at The Marsh in San Francisco in 2016-17. He teaches in the low-residency MFA, University of Alaska, Anchorage. zackrogow.com