Stephen Ratcliffe: 12.5

horizontal line of a pink cloud above still dark plane
of trees in the lower left corner, sound of wind moving
tobacco plant leaves, wingspan of a jet passing overhead

woman in green sweater recalling arriving with 105 degree
fever in Tahiti, thinking she was tired because of jet lag

woman on plane with bad back asking man to get her bag down
from overhead compartment, older woman in window seat asking
him to "get mine too," man saying "no"
   plane of grey-white
cloud slanting across pale blue-white sky in the upper right
corner, sunlit slope of the sandstone-colored cliff below it