Guest Post, Dad: The Flight of Strix

Time for another of my Dad’s pieces, this time I decided to pick something other than his Animal Dances.
This piece is called The Flight of Strix¹ and was previously published in 1995 in Poets Parade by Avon Books.

The Flight of Strix

by Mick.

I stood and gazed in wonder at that panoply of night, for a galaxy of shinning stars was all that met my sight.

From the corner of an eye, I saw it as silently as death, and for a fraction of a heartbeat I took not a breath. High in the star-lit heavens an alien craft flew by, turning twinkling stars to darkness in the winking of an eye.

I stood there in the darkness, and as the trees around, in fear and trepidation, stood rooted to the ground. There were visions then of ray-machines inter-galactic strife, then I pulled myself together and ran to warn the wife.

But turning back, looked harder at this alien machine, I could be hallucinating or it could be but a dream. As I looked with more acuity, my vision sharpened by a third, it was not an alien craft I saw, but a great night-flying bird.

1. a genus of owl [↩]

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