next

 

ellie epp

 

 

at the airport the sky is very big

your plane shrank so fast

i was afraid

you had shrunk away too

and could never come home

 

but i believe

tomorrow your father

will see it grow cataclysmically

big enough

to bring him

you

wired to a baggage tag

naming you Luke

prince of dungarees

proud of your plastic binoculars