Anita McKay is a freelance writer and poet. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Chronogram, Clever Magazine, Mused, and forthcoming inmiller’s pond. Anita is an avid traveler who enjoys seeing new places, learning the history firsthand, enjoying the food, and meeting people. The most significant part of travel for her is the encounters with people, including herself! She lives in upstate New York.
A New Land
By Anita McKay
The engine’s rumble
lifts to high pitched whine,
the pilot hits the brakes,
then comes the floating, floating
engineering replacing
imagination: this is how
people might travel, propelled
into the sky, arcing, silver mixed with blue,
controlled descent, rolling at last
parallel to the ground, touching.
Then those final moments
of anticipation, before the reality
of sight and smell and sound
replace the heart’s vision of a new land.
lifts to high pitched whine,
the pilot hits the brakes,
then comes the floating, floating
engineering replacing
imagination: this is how
people might travel, propelled
into the sky, arcing, silver mixed with blue,
controlled descent, rolling at last
parallel to the ground, touching.
Then those final moments
of anticipation, before the reality
of sight and smell and sound
replace the heart’s vision of a new land.
great description.