IMAGE: “Icarus” by Henri Matisse (1943).
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: This poem, originally published by Obsession, 3 (Spring 2012), was inspired by a flight over Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, on an ultralight airplane with no cockpit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: J.C. Elkin is an optimist, linguist, singer, traveler, theater critic and founder of the Broadneck Writers’ Workshop. Author of World Class: Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom (Apprentice House 2014), her prose and poetry appear in such journals as Kansas City Voices, Kestrel, The Delmarva Review, Ducts, and Steam Ticket.
PHOTO: The author at Redwood Refuge, Muir Woods, Marin County, California (2009).
Silver Birch Press 
I really like this poem. The shape actually enhances the poem, I feel, which usually isn’t the case. Really nice.