The steel bones of a city
bury me. I fasten
my seat belt while seated.
Skyscraper icicles collapse
into black filigree river
roads. More snow.
This is when I begin to be glad.
This is when I begin to be sad.
I will not lie. I love the time
between takeoff and landing.
Walls fall, rooms open,
doorways and windows flash,
crystal clarity bends
to a blue horizon and every-
where is snow, and birds,
looking for a place to land.
Evalyn Lee is a former CBS News producer currently living in London with her husband and two children. Over the years, she has produced television segments for 60 Minutes in New York and the BBC in London.