Lady Bird

Amelia, where did your bones go… Gilbert asks in a rhetorical verse conversation to Earhart – from one poet to another – that takes flight. Lines that zoom, 45 bank, stall, vertical bank/glide, dive 38 spiral, tailspin, side/slip, split ‘s’ turn, forward slip/barrel roll, loop inside, loop outside into some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Amelia’s death. Even though it has been more than eighty years since Earhart’s been missing, Gilbert writes Lady Bird at the same age that Amelia w...