Flying blind / Sharon Bryan -- from On extended wings / Diane Ackerman -- 39,000 feet / William Matthews -- Night travelers / Campbell McGrath -- from John Henry days / Colson Whitehead -- Low planes / Barbara Ras -- Ode to the air traffic controller / Joshua Beckman -- Helicopter wrecked on a hill / Christine Hume -- from Enduring love / Ian McEwan -- Pale blue city / Jeffrey Harrison -- Reservations confirmed / Charles Harper Webb -- Untitled ("He was drinking--") / Gary Young -- Gate C22 / Ellen Bass -- from On love, "Romantic fatalism" / Alain de Botton -- De-icing the wings / Carol Muske-Dukes -- The flying cat / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Symmetry breaking / Brenda Hillman -- Sensual disaster / Kevin Prufer -- Delta Flight 1152 / Andrea Hollander Budy -- The flight / Peter La Salle -- Letter to Shakespeare / Arthur Vogelsang -- Flight / Bruce Smith -- This is so not me / Natalie Serber -- Would you know a snook, or a large-eyed whiff, from a goggle-eyed scad, should the necessity arise?--I thought so / Albert Goldbarth -- Men without women / Richard Garcia -- from On extended wings / Diane Ackerman -- Amelia Earhart / Terese Svoboda -- Dive from 49,000 feet / Enid Shomer -- How bluegrass saved my life / Kim Ponders -- 1945 / Jean Valentine -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- Lonely eagles / Marilyn Nelson -- Uncle Cy is building a plane / Martha Kinney -- from Cat's eye / Margaret Atwood -- Lt. Col. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova / Kelly Cherry -- Grissom Way / Ned Balbo -- Space Age / Lise Goett -- Isoka, a northern province of Zambia, 1999 / Rosemary Griggs -- The mutual UFO network / Lee Martin -- Aerial view / Jan Wesley -- Those who wrestle with the angel for us / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Pilot stars / Sherrod Santos -- Night flying / Russ Franklin -- Salt / Phillip Levine -- Wings / Susan Stewart
