JANE (1983)

After landing, she picked up her rental
from the Avis. Driving north on the Tollway
to catch the LBJ past Highland Park and Richardson
to meet Mick Jagger at the Olive Garden off Belt Line
Road. Traffic is stopped, and drivers stand outside their cars
watching a Beechcraft crash upon landing at Addison Airport.
Jane imagines herself suspended in her seat on a bubbling runway
of oil. The smell of leather feeds a pillar of fire from the fuselage.

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by Ruben Quesada

Ruben Quesada is the editor of a hybrid collection, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. He is the author of Revelations and Next Extinct Mammal: Poems. His writing appears in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kirkus Review, and Harvard Review. He has served as an editor for AGNI, PANK, The Rumpus, and Pleiades and as a poetry blogger for The Kenyon Review and Ploughshares. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Antioch University-Los Angeles and for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.