Good Morning

The Writer, Vernon Wade

Vernon Wade is a poet, author and freelancer. He has been published in The Gorge Literary Journal, Dualsport Rider Magazine, Hack’d Magazine, The Sidecarist, ROB Magazine and The Hood River News.

The world fills him with wonder. When he looks at the sky he is lifted into flights of fancy, when he stares at the earth he is drawn beneath its surface. He is delighted to find the macrocosm and the microcosm equally mesmerizing.

10/22/25 6:00 39F (3.8C)

I awoke to a still morning, the sky full of glittering stars. It is so dark I had to feel my way across the deck to the tub. Overhead in the cold blackness, the twins watch Orion stalk his prey into the oaks. The dogs cavort around their feet.