Flying On…
After a Long Wait
Outside the window of the airport terminal, brightness has risen, while unflappable wings are in the foreground. Down two miles of straight runway, an airplane can be seen getting smaller as it extends toward the vanishing point.
At five a.m., a Starbucks opens for business.
On the table, a chocolate croissant, a coffee, a cup of tea, and my crumpled overcoat occupies the seat where Jenny should be.
I shouldn’t be able to look away or hear the music blur into the hum of conversation while looking at a black teenage girl with a strange hairstyle that makes the top of her head look like a furrowed field.
If Jenny were here, I wouldn’t miss her, wouldn’t look away, care to hear the bloody music or concern myself with a teenager’s hairstyle.
But I do…I eat the chocolate croissant.
“Sorry, honey, there’s a line for the women’s restroom.”
“That’s okay, I got you a cup of tea, and a chocolate croissant.”
“You did…?”
“Yeah, well… tough, it was a long wait.”
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