Silver Bird Above San Francisco A free-verse ode to aviation’s mundane miracle, using William Carlos Williams’ “so much depends” as structural refrain across six sections—from a torque-spec’d bolt to sleeping passengers to ground observers—culminating in a formally fractured final stanza that breaks the phrase across 17 lines, syntax itself suspended like the plane between blues. (Inspired by a June 2025 flight out of SFO, San Francisco.) Includes bonus Pindarian ode version. [Return to blog index]