It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
The geese take over the runway when production of the F14 shuts down. Long after their winged visas expire these immigrants stay on Long Island, finding the climate kinder than Canada. Clipboard in hand, heavy with you, I waddle into the boneyard in search of scrap metal. Nesting with her green goslings in a broken cockpit, a gray mother hisses at me and refuses to leave the pilot seat even after I flash my Government ID. I put off the disposal of this fuselage, while I wait for these fledglings to become juveniles, for the military precision of their flyby.
Vicki Iorio is the author of the full-length poetry collections Poems from the Dirty Couch (Local Gems Press) and Not Sorry (Alien Buddha Press) as well as the chapbooks Send Me a Letter (dancinggirlpress) and Something Fish (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals including The Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, poets respond on line, The Fem Lit Magazine, and The American Journal of Poetry. Vicki is currently living in Florida but her heart is in New York.
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