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Cuong Tran is the man whose iPhone fell out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 when the plane lost a door plug during the flight, which was going from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, on January 5. His phone was recovered on the side of a road and miraculously survived the drop of thousands of feet: It still had half of its battery's charge and was in airplane mode, opened to an email containing a baggage claim receipt.— Business Insider, January 13, 2024
A fierce gust
ripped out like a rude birth
to incomprehensible air
propellered by wind
strong steel case
glinting sun
blue sky
dark earth
turning and turning
the hawk’s gyre
compass berserk with spinning
electrons scattered
hectic static stilled
freefall
calm at the farthest edges
deep silence of
time unscaled
violent jolt
jiggering compass
shuddering apps
readjustments
where is
where is
the tower
glass face swept clean
thumbs probing
questions
that can’t be answered
Fran Davis is a journalist living on California’s South Coast. Her writing appears in magazines and travel books. Her prose and poems have been published in New Verse News, Calyx, The Chattahoochee Review, The Vincent Brothers Review, Reed Magazine, Passager, and several anthologies. She is a winner of the Lamar York prize York prize for nonfiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee.