illusion belly fire I woke up this morning still on the twilight of sleep and for the first time in so many months the light of early morning came through my window for a minute I thought it might be raining outside the way the sky used to look in the spring before my mother drove me to school that old familiar familiar came back to me so easily like the smell of fresh worms and soggy grass yet the irony is I never daydream about the snow the bitter no-smell of the morning and the dormancy that is always so unsettling just below the surface the world is still sleeping and the rain won't be here for months yet it was just the illusion of the early sunrise minutes earlier each day 030214 ... frAnk nice work. i know the feeling of nature's illusions. this very morning as i look out at the azure sky and even though a fresh snow from yesterday and 4omph winds created drifts up to four feet in some areas, i am still tricked into thinking its warm. think again. mercury never lies. it's six degrees. 030214 what's it to you? who go blather from