fly by night (from the cycle NIGHTS)

how very strange

how the nights stretch

when you travel by plane

or how they shrink

to a handful of hours

depending on the direction

of your flight

but you hardly notice

because your thoughts

are set on that conference

or that you are distancing yourself

from Kate

poor thing

and poor you as well

and the view through

the small window with scratched plexiglass

only shows grey wafts of mist

this side of a pitch black sky

so you turn away

and slowly focus

on the mute tv screen

in front of you

playing a classic

in black and white

is it “Casablanca”

with a wet runway

in drizzling rain

at night