one winter’s early eave as I was leaving work I sat in my old Carolla, facing east a rainless sky was threatening promising a cold, windy storm contrasting light grays, dark grays and blacks shapes shifting and swimming slowly like fish in an aquarium
as I sat spying the skyscape a conspicuous cloud caught my attention a large, ashen football against a flat dark field began to split horizontally across the center slowly opening like eyelids long, thick lashes connecting top to bottom when the lashes finally parted the aperture revealed an angry Asian face with fiercely focused features the interaction looked at me without meeting my eyes I watched mesmerized for moments then drove home...wondering
back at work, I described the incident to curious and amazed acceptance only one poor soul tried to discredit me poking fun at my “hallucination” “You don’t have to be afraid, baby”, I replied “It’s just clouds”