Lizza Rodriguez  of Miami Shores, FL  Winner of the Louise
Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Award in 2013  Glory Be What Going
See   Beware of jet plane parts  with the squeeze tube  kite
string men  and fistfuls of sky  they say I look like  telephone
wires  an extension cord  of myself  I am high risk voltage  in
a burning building  with the lights out  fire engine playing
café blues  I was dilly dialing  when the phones rang  then I
ran out  like red roses  emptied out my petals  for lingerie
very much Venus  flying trap  anything that suspends  can't be
trusted  like an empty schoolyard  he caught my pulse  on recess
hung me like   but I didn't pass  the security check  so he
called me  a pilot with no  wings because  women can't fly  all
that often   something about  the cockpits  and being small
inside  like a business man  I'm not sure  what it means  to be
30,000 feet  above everything  but maybe I don't  need to see it
all  just in case my  parts come off  and he's all that's  left
after the crash.