DPF / Smith

For President’s Day, from Poetry Foundation, and from a Smith, my mother’s maiden name. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244378

from The President Flies Over / by Patricia Smith b. 1955

Aloft between heaven and them,
 
I babble the landscape—what staunch, vicious trees,
what cluttered roads, slow cars.