intimacy and anonymity in economy
A poem by Ronald Zack

intimacy and anonymity in economy
After John Donne
There’s intimacy
flying in the cheap seats –
sharing recycled
cabin air like the bite of a
sonnet flea.  Strangers oozing
over edges of seats
invading personal spaces,
thigh to thigh, arm to arm,
forming one turbulent
undulating mass careening
across the sky in blissless
harmony.

Outside, darkness carpets
cloud-tops high above the
unforgiving ocean with so
many secrets of its own.
Inside, strangers sleep together 
dreaming of vanishing barriers,
skin to skin, they settle into
one another’s space,
exploring the deepest
rewards of nameless
possibilities.

About the Author:

Ronald Zack is an attorney and a Family Nurse Practitioner in Tucson Arizona.  He was born and raised in Detroit and worked his way out west through the Navajo Reservation.  Currently, he is working on an MFA in creative writing at the Mississippi University for Women.

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