Wonder about Earl Ovington…first air
mail pilot…flying by dead reckoning…
if he hated the term dead…if he cared
about faith and fear…danger beckoning...
always there…Wonder about Charles Lindbergh…
early air mail pilot…had to bale out
twice in storms…how his body felt when surge
of chute caught his fall…did he smile and shout…
or just take it in stride…I’ve baled from some
relationships…been baled out on…never
took them in stride…never easy come…
sometimes stormed…rare times acted clever…
never considered the chute staying closed
so to speak…wonder if the Spirit posed
a question about my fate…and then chose…
Roger Armbrust
September 8, 2020
