STARK NIGHTS

"Amelia's Glide" by Robert Oventile

Amelia's Glide

direction lost
throttle useless
gliding’s still flying
Nooner puts a hand out
Icarus jokes
Pacific horizons
a stock radio transmission
before laughing speech
arcs between
anticipate the rumors
blue-green wall
escapades flash
toothy smiles

Robert Savino Oventile has published essays and book reviews in Postmodern Culture, Jacket, symplokē, and The Chicago Quarterly Review, among other journals. His poetry has appeared in The New Delta Review, Upstairs at Duroc, and The Denver Quarterly. He is coauthor with Sandy Florian of Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down (Atmosphere 2021).