melissaahowells

how do
you keep our secrets
as they slip out
you hide our whimpers
and whispers.

sometimes it is as if
God is our only witness
we feel estranged
from ourselves.

you are Father Confessor
yet not a man of the cloth
but a man of vast belief
we feel relief
in your presence.

you are a witness.

the Skinwalker
treads here in this distant
arid piece of land
brutalizing dark our senses
working hard to reign
by emotional attrition.

upon their arrival
the Gormans were greeted by
a giant wolf sidling pastureland
slinking more like a man

("what is that?")

the beast seized the family's cat
and attempted to drag it through
the slats of the corral fence

Mr. Gorman
aimed a 350 then an aught six
the one shot-gun bullet making its mark
but the animal
persisted unflinching.

shocked, the family
didn't understand what they
were witnessing.
the bullet finally connecting
leaving a hunk of smoldered
reeking black flesh.

they haven't learned to understand
yet
the secrets
the stories
that are so old
they are ancient.

so many people knew of
the trickster history of this place
and its eerie past

it was evilly intentional...

the experiencing was
a grocery list of
the surreal and
fear-producing exponential...

animal mutilations,
silent, distant silver objects in the sky,
the basketball blue orbs,
the four-foot tall wolves,
the freakish flights of birds,
the invisible voices speaking in
mocking derisive tones
household objects disappearing
and reappearing in a new homes
and giant blackening shadows

did whatever was here
what no one else to share
its space

all recording devices
were violently destroyed
each time they were replace
with large red eyes detected below
on the cameras before
they were gutted.

the Mormans, the Utes,
have always remembered to
avoid this vile thatch
of earth
calling It
the realm of the
Skinwalker.

one morning,
after a daylight
mutilation of an 80 pound calf,
not even the professional Tracker could
find trace of It.

Written after listening to George Knapp
and Colm Kelleher who were guests on
the Coast-to-Coast program with
George Noory...this is factual information included
this is my fictionalized interpretation.
Gorman is not the name of the family as they have
felt terrorized and the accounting of the tale is
protecting their anonymity.

Copyright October 24, 2013
Melissa A Howells
Meloo Tilt-a-World
Author Retains All Copyrights

written hastily to the page after listening
will go back and edit later on...