Euphoric Drift

By Ashley Parker Owens

Euphoric Drift instantly takes the reader on an intimate journey through the ins and outs of UFO encounter, and the resulting mystifying aftermath. Meticulously crafted by a UFO abductee, these poetic snippets of multiple-perspective experiences reveal an exploration of ambiguity--and through that exploration, an examination of the innermost sel

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ashley Parker Owens
• Release date: Nov 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781792381508

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Olive Hill

July 15, 1981

I take off my jacket

throw it in the bushes

pick up my clattering bike

to ride to school.

My little brother

watches from the window

cheeks soft & pure,

rapid blinking.

A cylinder flies past,

a quarter-mile up,

bolting right to left,

angled at forty-five degrees.

It traverses our view

in four to five seconds,

faster than white water rapids,

with no breeze.

Pungent sweet burgundy

brushes my arm

I jump, my chest tightens.

I glance back at my brother

but he isn’t at the window.

I thought the graze was an insect,

but it was a force

& silent.

Fort Thomas

Campbell County Library, February 27, 2015

I roll in to the library

& claim a workstation

adjustable for wheelchairs.

Log in to the computer

and open Google Earth

to explore digital landscapes.

I discover an opaque round object

hundreds of feet wide,

embedded in ice.

Inside the flat image,

the dark entity is possibly

an optical illusion;

a phenomenon;

a deep crevasse

& not an object protruding.

No smell, no temperature

No color, no sound

unlike

here on earth

Fresh air & pine trees,

carbon dissipating in the atmosphere after firing a rifle,

the beach after a hard rain,

drinking hot chocolate at a January football game,

moist puppy breath,

I don’t know.

Mayfield

Highways 52 & 62, January 8, 2000

Driving toward the bridge,

the lonely passenger side

lit up sharp orange,

shimmery as sunlight

bouncing off the side mirror

interrupting my focus—

as