as she walks out on the tarmac
he scans the morning paper
- exchange rates
- commodity prices
- profits, losses, gains...
thirty minutes after
at 39,000 feet
she reads another paper
but does not find
the article she seeks
- current currencies
- all ordinaries shares
- the trade weighted index
on export dollars
and foreign dreams...
in the once hotel room
the window suffers the curtain
and the room
the skittering of the leaves