Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma

It’s mostly the same here slow as melonvines in an arctic sun where the great ball of the plane went down in nineteen thirty-five & an eskimo with a camera took a picture that stayed in his camera twenty-one years & by some chance he told an explorer who bought the film & found the crash & the bodies under tarp looking like two seals on the ice, the crumpled plane with oversized pontoons, the propeller as though it could turn again— the men, Wiley Post & Will Rogers, still twelve miles southwest of Barrow, Alaska.