UFO's

This is a google image, close to what we saw,

but it was closer to us than this one-

maybe two  to three yard-lengths away,
above some low trees.

Out back, it is bare brown desert, rolling for miles,

sheltering beside low, rounded brown hills.

The landscape is unmarred by buildings, 

a few scattered small houses, sky wide and clear.

It is dusk when the neighbors come knocking,

excited, urging us, "Quick! Come and see!

There's something out back, something weird, a UFO!"

The kids and I line up, beside the neighbors.

Off a little ways, hovering over the field,
just above some trees,

emitting no noise, to indicate engines
or whatever is keeping it there,

is a round craft of some sort,

looking like something out of Star Trek.

It hovers there in one spot for some 40 minutes,

making no sound, apparently observing.

I call the police, who say 

they have received many calls from people

seeing the same thing.

They have no idea what it is.

My son, age ten,  is frantically setting up his telescope,

muttering like the Absent Minded Professor:

"Ohmygawd, ohmygawd, ohmygawd, it's a UFO,

I cant believe it. Wait!  I can see something!

It's the ring around Saturn!

Oh! No....it's the reflection 

of my eyeball in the lens cap."

We all crack up,
standing on the porch.

Six humans, lined up on the porch,

we observe the aliens.

Presumably, from inside the spacecraft,

the aliens, hovering,  observe us.

After 40 minutes, still without sound,

the craft drifts slowly off, 
sideways and away.

Our first and only UFO.

For Susan's prompt at MidWeek Motif - halfway point of the year or World UFO Day. 

Since our family saw a UFO in the late 1970's, I chose that topic. For anyone who believes, the most riveting movie I ever saw about UFO's is The Fourth Kind, a true story, which includes some actual footage of UFO  visitations and abductions in Alaska, in the 1980's. Yikes.

This is more prose than poetry, but am running out the door....may try a more poetic offering later.