Poem: Terminal / Aérogare
In this week’s Poet’s Corner in the first of two consecutive contributions, Sydney’s Graham Wood writes of flying away.
Terminal / Aérogare
Approaching
Vancouver Airport
that morning,
the subtleties of language
on a bilingual road sign
caught me barely awake.
The English ‘Terminal’
struck me with its bluntness,
brought the faintest hint
of voyager doom
to my airport arrival.
The French, however,
hoisted me happily
on its metaphor,
had me already
on a station platform,
waiting for the skytrain
to bear me through the clouds.
Graham Wood lives in the northern suburbs of Sydney and has worked in a variety of occupations. His poems have been published in a number of Australian and international journals, newspapers and anthologies. Over 2021–2023, five chapbooks of his poems were published by Ginninderra Press, and a full collection of his poems Of Moments and Days was also published by Ginninderra, in 2023.
Readers’ original and unpublished poems of up to 40 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to [email protected]. Submissions should be in the body of the email, not as attachments. A poetry book will be awarded to each accepted contributor.
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