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
Bigger than They Appear

“What a cache of treasures this collection is, what a cache of jewels. […] All are reminders of what the best, briefest poems can do: give back the world to us, as it passes, in the mirror of a few well-chosen words.”

-Cecilia Woloch

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.