Flying West (song adapted from poem by Mary Ciani Saslow, style: 80s Soviet synth pop)

Flying West (song adapted from poem by Mary Ciani Saslow, in the style of 80s Soviet synth pop)
Clouds ablaze
burn a purple sky alizarin,
vermilion, cadmium, scarlet,
all the way West.
Blind passengers
ignore the pyrotechnics fading over
exfoliating eczemas of habitation,
a photo of Tokyo.
We find Texas
empty, the prairie black, lapping
clustered incandescent grids as
poignant as lost islands.
One light moves
south, a crazy skipper sailing
solo remembering purple skies,
longing for a dawn.
Poem copyright Mary Ciani Saslow.