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the shadow moves gently
across the engine
and I realize the plane is rocking very slightly
as the captain’s hands on the controls
— or perhaps it is the autopilot
so it is the hands of the engineers
who typed the code —
are just barely rocking the plane
and all of us within it
slipping through the currents of the sky
so softly we can’t
even feel it