Untitled By Sophie Katz

Is the sky the limit, or a unifier?

That bright blue dream, made touchable

By bike-seller brothers in the North Carolinian hills

It's thanks to them that now a toddler kicks the back of my seat

In time to his rendition of the ABCs

While the woman next to me watches Star Wars with Spanish subtitles

And I eat the Chinese fried rice I purchased in the terminal

Listening to the row in front of me - a pair of strangers, from opposite coasts -

Realize they have a friend in common.

"Jewish Geography strikes again," they laugh.

All of this - impossible, a century ago,

When the sky was a limit, and other lives were days and days away And you lived and learned and died in a single tiny circle on the ground.

How human we are, in this place no human could reach alone.

How wonderful we are, reaching new heights, together.

Sophie's Bio 

Sophie A. Katz (she/her) is a queer, Jewish writer with a lot on her mind. A lifelong storyteller, Katz currently makes a living writing for theme parks, cruise ships, museums, and anywhere else stories come to life all around you. You can find her debut poetry collection, Enigma and Other Aromantic Asexual Love Poems, wherever books are sold.