An invisible and turbulent sea. Edgewater.
Water vapor. White water. Waves. Westerly winds.
Sowing seeds in the sky. Reaping rain.
the space
The sky is many things to many people.
Pegasus flying on winter wings. Swiftly rising.
Morphing. Uncontainable. No longer landlocked.
in between
The secret life of azure airspace. Airstream.
A cerulean sphere cut with contrails. In the wake
of atmospheric insignificance. Multidimensional.
broken layers
Cumulus cities rise. Skyline. Skyscrapers.
Reflected in the surface of still waters. Revealing.
Or concealing. A black hole portal to a cloudscape.
As a retired airline pilot, Andrea Eldridge completed her MFA in creative writing at UC Riverside-Palm Desert. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry, published in journals celebrating Japanese forms, and anthologized in Contemporary Haibun Online. This year, she won first place in the Samurai Haibun Contest, and her story “Strange Birds” won the Solas Award for Best Travel Writing in the women’s category. Air & Space/Smithsonian Magazine continues to publish her narrative essays. Andrea now lives with her husband and dogs on a mountainside in Idaho.
