Uh oh, Max. Just the local drone population,mayhap?
We await the photographic evidence...…
Doug
On Sep 30, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Lake Union UFOs
>
> We are being surveilled,
> so my wife feels,
> by aircraft hovering at night
> silently. She sees them
> when she stirs at 3 a.m. -
> well before dawn.
>
> Brightly lit, no ordinary shape
> of plane or helicopter,
> sometimes one alone -
> over Queen Anne Hill,
> or nearer, over the Lake -
> at most three, so far -
>
> they prompt her to reach for
> camera or cellphone, to snap
> or - better - film the hovering,
> the soaring, the sidling away.
>
> When her camera flashes,
> then they move, as if
> acknowledging: we saw you,
> we saw you seeing us,
> we saw you trying to record us.
>
> Mostly, she spares me this:
> wakened at 3, I’m useless.
> Maybe, I also think, my
> scepticism gets in the way.
>
> (When she sees clouds she snaps
> for their animal shapes,
> I’m always good for some
> sour ‘fancy that!’)
>
> But the other night,
> I stirred, sat up, and saw
> what she’s been seeing often,
> perplexed by. Surveillance?
> a woman at the window?
>
> I watched impressed,
> the big bright craft steady
> then zooming, drawing
> sceptic me into relationship,
> wishing her filming would work
> as the night sky cleared.
>
> Did you get it? - big lights,
> now tiny on her little screen.
> The would-be movie
> flickers and wavers,
> the big craft of no certain
> shape shifts and vanishes.
>
> If it has work to do,
> it’s city-wide, surely,
> sky-wide, sky-high,
> beyond and beyond.
Douglas Barbour
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