Antics of Dream Flyers
Aeronautic
A stream-of-consciousness poem of dreamtime flying, corresponding to the oral cues and illustration of Gene H., 4th grade, Poets-in-the-Schools.
Gene remembers a special summer when his mother went away for a few days to get him a baby brother, and he went to his grandma’s and slept on a cot, except he rolled over and out and landed on the ground (actually on a carpet with silky fringe that interested his fingers), and he decided the carpet was more comfy than the bed until it suddenly ascended, which gave him a fright until he attended to some dials for Altitude and Zoom, and then every night he enjoyed a flight out of his grandma’s guest room, until the doomsday when his holiday was over and he was sent home, without carpet and aero-flight, to meet a baby brother who cried all night — a lot of fuss and bother.
“Aeronautic” originally published in Antics of Dream Flyers, © 2016 Margaret Honton, Sophia Books, Pueblo, CO.
