Best Liftoff Poems

Free Fall to Liftoff

for my father, Paul Ray Burch, Jr. 

I see the longing for departure gleam
in his still-keen eye, 
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few cars for liftoff
disappointed by “no-go”
sighs and shrugs
but in 1969
it was a parking lot high
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Phrases string together,
letters front to back

Birds of the same feather,
in each other’s tracks

Marching toward transcendence,
words reformed and strong

Flocking into unison
—flying into song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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