Eva Deitch
It’s an overnight flight,
out my window a full moon floats on the horizon
Up there, 30,000 feet, I convince myself
the moon is a destination for anyone
A somewhere to buy a ticket to
after catching wanderlust from an advertisement on the cramped subway.
It reads “No personal space?, how about outer space!?”
I imagine:
the pilot come on the PA
before take off
announcing our travel time
238,900 miles, over three days.
A murmur rolls over the cabin
as passengers turn to their neighbor to discuss itinerary.
A visit to the lunar flag assembly, a must,
Tethered hike down into the Tycho Crater, for the more adventurous,
A scheduled “mooning” back towards to earth, followed by a group photo.
The moon’s incessant light beaming through
the cabin brings me back to the reality of my window seat
I close my shade
for the sleeping passenger next to me
who with eyes closed
and without turning says
“Sometimes I forget the moon doesn’t shine on it’s own”
Eva Deitch
Eva Deitch lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York. She graduated with a degree in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and is a 2018 alumni of the Documentary and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Deitch photographs for a variety of editorial clients, art institutions and environmental non-profits. Her personal work explores place as both a physical and psychological space. She uses traveling, contemplation, writing, visual and audio documentation as tools to engage with both tangible and existential experiences of life.