Flight Delay

In kangaroo room, bitter
     black raven gnaws   gullet
     fizz of indulgence
Pilot thanks still kindle – my sole
     conversation in the bustling port.

My dry sleek lux to sit alone
     with words
     in tap house
Good bad happy sad: Svabhava Shuddha.

In corrugated travel bardo
     electric crickets creak
     glass aisles witness
     ceaseless ingest,
     muffle twang
     fillibust the boarding time.

Some people stretch plenty canvas
     for tattoos
This day, like closing a chapter
     haunts my possibilities.