Says more, perhaps, about you and wife, Max. 'Fancy that'! Some news of
drones and the trickiness in policing their flights. Real Estate agents are
particularly fond of using them to film or snap from e dealing angles.
Is there a reason for the differential in numbers of lines in each stanza?
Bill
On Thursday, October 1, 2015, 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.
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