spin of the globe 
a dust trail across the Atlantic 

renewing my passport 
with an older face 

airport waitress 
flying off the handle 

business class 
working for peanuts 

in-flight movie 
Snakes on a Plane 

extreme turbulence 
on the back of my seat 

a zentangle doodled 
on the airsick bag 

Publisher’s Note:

I’m delighted to present this unusual poem in MacQ. The duostitch sequence (linked haiku couplets) and the distich (a stand-alone, two-line haiku) are rare forms, with the latter making up an estimated 1.6 percent of the total number of haiku published in the English language. For details, see New to Haiku: An Introduction to Two-Line Haiku by Julie Bloss Kelsey in Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog (8 October 2023).

As I recall, MacQ has published in five years only one distich, the tiny five-syllable poem charmingly referred to as ”halfaku“ by its author.

Bio: Terri L. French