Lauren Johnson

10,000 FEET ABOVE THE EARTH AT 6:19 A.M.

A specter trailing
phosphorus fingers in inky lakes:
the full moon, solitary in the sky.
The amber and snow-white glitter
of Orlando’s skyscrapers and suburbs
spreads in spoked galaxies.
Glowing roads of traffic flow
slower from this height.
I don’t recognize my home
from this lunar point of view.

Lauren Johnson is from Orlando, Florida. Her work has appeared in Living Waters Review and The Sailfish Review and is forthcoming in The Fourth River.  When she is not writing, she enjoys reading retold myths, singing along to musicals, contemplating the meaning of the universe, and baking bread.