The Airman’s Alphabet
Ace Pride
of parents
and
photographed person
and
laughter in leather.
Bomb Curse
from cloud
and
coming to crook
and
saddest to steeple.
Cockpit Soft seat
and
support of soldier
and
hold for hero.
Death Award
for wildness
and worst in the west
and
painful to pilots.
Engine Darling to designers
and
dirty dragon
and
revolving roarer.
Flying Habit of hawks
and
unholy hunting
and
ghostly journey.
Gauge Informer
about oil
and
important to eye
and
graduated glass.
Hangar Mansion of machine
and
motherly to metal
and
house of handshaking.
Instrument Dial on dashboard
and
destroyer of doubt
and
father of fact.
Joystick Pivot of power
and
responder to pressure
and
grip for the glove.
Kiss Touch
taking off
and
tenderness in time
and
firmness on flesh.
Looping Flying folly
and
feat at fairs
and
brave to boys.
Mechanic Owner of overalls
and
interested in iron
and
trusted with tools.
Nose-Dive Nightmare to nerves
and
needed by no one
and
dash towards death.
Observer Peeper through periscope
and
peerer at pasture
and
eye in the air.
Propeller Wooden wind-oar
and
twisted whirler
and
lifter of load.
Quiet Absent
from airmen
and
easy to horses
and
got in the grave.
Rudder Deflector of flight
and
flexible fin
and
pointer of path.
Storm Night
from the north
and
numbness nearing
and
hail ahead.
Time Expression
of alarm
and
used by the ill
and
personal space.
Under carriage Softener
of shock
and
seat on the soil
and easy to injure.
Victim Corpse after crash
and
carried through country
and atonement for aircraft.
Wireless Sender of signal
and
speaker of sorrow
and
news from nowhere.
X Mark upon map
and
meaning mischief
and
lover’s lingo.
Youth Daydream
of devils
and
dear to the damned
and
always to us.
Zero Love
before leaving
and
touch of terror
and
time of attack.
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