Night Flight
saw Montreal’s hair at night
a glowing angelfish trapped in a hook of light
cities: scattered deep-sea shapes
all tendrils wrapped in foggy tissue
pulsing firefly glow of cars
flew farther, above Saint-Jean, Drummondville,
Sherbrooke.
deeper into the black after Sept-Iles
the ocean opened
her midnight maw;
deep below
leviathans hunt flesh
those beasts as big as cities
swallowing all the creatures
of luminescent blood
J M McDermott's first novel, Last Dragon, was published by Wizards of the Coast Discoveries in 2008. He graduated from the University of Houston in 2002 with a BA in Creative Writing and resides in Arlington, Texas with an assortment of empty coffee cups, overflowing bookshelves, and crazy schemes. He maintains a blog at http://jmmcdermott.blogspot.com.