End of the flight. The aisle fills with us, our
faces toward the door—crowns swirled in dark curls,
slick black swoops, coarse grizzled pepper
and salt, white tufts, silken, thinning—
time-lapse bodies sturdy, bent.
I sit, no longer
in a hurry.

-Leatha Kendrick

“There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection.”

– Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Recent posts from Bigger Than They Appear:

• “Thirteen Blackbirds Lookings to Do Something New” by Katie Manning
• “Grammar” by Larry Moore
• “Shut Up!” by Suchoon Mo
• “My Elephant” by Christine Strevinsky
• “World’s Shortest Pantoum” by Tom C. Hunley

Leatha Kendrick is author of three books of poetry, most recently Second Opinion (2008). Her poems appear widely in anthologies and journals. She teaches at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY.

More from Leatha Kendrick:

• Writing Challenge: “Draw Your Way into a Poem:
• Leatha Kendrick’s Lexington Poetry Month Submissions 2013