MAGPIE/ Prompt #73

People of Chilmark/ Thomas Hart Benton/1920

 

VERY INSPIRATIONAL, thanks to Tess, for Magpie Tales #73.

 

ABDUCTION

In Chilmark, every game is a trick of time.

Moments spill over boundaries

of seconds and hours.

Sometimes we live

in a painting by Benton

of strapping young men,

rivaling for glances

from flirtatious sweet things.

My brother, Fox Mulder,

one day on The X-Files,

mentioned that it was

in Chilmark,

where we were raised,

that on November 27, 1973

I was kidnapped by aliens.

The last thing I heard

as the crowd called out,

was Samantha, Samanth....

as the spaceship was sealed.

I was returned on a summer's eve,

like a Frisbee come back,

between a pond named Menemsha

and the one called Squibnocket,

ten years later when boys were now men,

and girls with tired eyes

cuddled babes in their arms.

The night hung heavy

with years passing slowly,

but for me it was just a minute before.

 

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