Mikaela Castledine #2 Flight response (to poems by AB, KK, KB)

it took

nearly twenty five years

for me to realise 

that my first long

overseas flight

early in my second trimester

where I

vomited every twenty minutes

from Dubai to Paris

retching and wretched

was the reason

that my subsequent travelling

was always a mixture 

of fecundity and fear