From This Height, Six Days before 9/11 The plane inches toward take-off. I glance at family members, waving us on to our destination, Lawton, Oklahoma, our son’s graduation from basic training. From the air, the ground looks like Seurat painted it, blue swimming pools, green and brown fields, more like quilt squares than dots, nature’s ballroom, enjoyment for the locals. Seurat used conte crayons on rough paper for sketches. Our son’s diploma will be on smooth paper, cream with dark type, his name large in the middle, no conte crayons, the worst roughness lies ahead.
About the Author: Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in As it Ought to Be, Loch Raven Review, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, Bulb Culture Collective, Bindweed, One Art, Young Ravens Literary Review, Sanctuary, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in October of 2020.
Image Credit: Georges Seurat “Poplars” (1883-1884) Public domain image courtesy of Artvee
As It Ought To Be 