Flight Path explores what it means to be temporary in an unpredictable but seemingly infinite landscape where people, birds, and trains only stop moving when they are dead. In this largely autobiographical collection, Becca celebrates resilience and challenges the notion that time is a linear function by examining the ways in which grief framed her childhood and how those experiences continue to resurface in different forms to challenge but also guide her as an adult.
From the book:
Salt
Tell me about the time in Roanoke I swung
my legs over the railway bridge
and tiny slivers found themselves
buried in my skin like when
I stared at the wing of the plane
4 days later and kept seeing you shrinking
from my view all tangled
in the fence like some desperate
trapped animal
and I cried then
tell me about camera obscura, how
through a hole in the wall you can
capture someone else’s life upside down
and make it right again like when
we fumbled in the dark room
trying to turn the negatives we’d collected
into something we could
handle
tell me about state lines and
King’s Dominion and how
being upside down and screaming
in the dark was alright somehow, for a minute
and I will tell you how long it takes
to rinse the salt from my clothes
to return to thin air and frost mornings
after living for days at sea level
with my lungs entirely too full of
breath and possibility and I will
tell you that I rinse and rinse and
still there’s enough salt left over to float
me up when I am sinking,
to keep the ghosts away.
Author’s Bio
Becca Carson lives in Missoula, MT with her wife Cori, their kids, and their cats and dogs. This is her first book. Becca competes in the occasional poetry slam and has published one non-fiction piece in Mamalode magazine, but most of her time is spent in the classroom at Big Sky High School where she teaches English and introductory creative writing in addition to two upper level creative writing courses better known collectively as the Aerie Magazine Program, which publish two student produced literary arts magazines annually. When Becca isn’t teaching she is probably creating something or exploring. She is governed by insatiable curiosity.
Flight Path
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