Steps on High

The Dash-8 aircraft is a hovering
imitation, seagull-flapping
engines glisten
under sun's nourishing cover

from my window perch clouds
create cotton balls of
misshapen puffs sprinkled
across the sky

the plane becoming a glider
at 18,000 feet, descends

pencil-line roads inch across
green swaths of colour
on a busy pallet
a friendship of farms
quilted in patterns below

civilization a photo album of
cottages circled by lakes
poured into
a sink-hole of woods

our earthly landing a relief.

© Richard L. Provencher