Turbula - Winter 2003 - Glass Bottom Plane


Volume II, Issue IV	Winter 2003

Glass Bottom Plane

About Martha Everhart Braniff

Martha Everhart Braniff hails from Houston, where she writes fiction, poetry and essays. Her short story, "Resurrection," published in HAPPY literary journal, was nominated for the 2002 Pushcart Prize. Her suspense novel, "Beds of Broken Glass," was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize.

By Martha Everhart Braniff

At thirty-thousand feet,
the plane's floor
transforms into a window,
where she glimpses man and wife
frozen in blue tundra,
unable to swim icy currents,
caught in unspoken undertow,
uttering muffled words,
bitter echoes of
highs and lows that bring storms,
hurricanes and typhoons.

Upon landing, she doesn't tell
her husband
about the couple in the sky,
yet she remembers
their plaintive song
every time
the weatherman describes
unstable air currents
causing trouble on earth.

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