Near Miss

Near Miss considers the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life's unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude and hopefulness.... When the Emergency BroadcastSystem proclaims this is only a test, youleave the TV on because you've gottenused to the sound. You keep waitingfor the heat to come on, for the regularbroadcast to resume, for a new sensationto quicken inside you like the sightof that fleet of ghost-planes liftedfrom the desert, reanimated, hoveringover your house as if everything is fine.- 'Decommissioned Planes'