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.

11/14/25 6:30 51F (11C) Cloudy. There is a faint breeze, it is relatively warm, and raining.

The dog woke me, licking my face at a quarter after six. It was already light by the time I’d made my tea and gone out to the hot tub.

It started cloudy and gray with steady rain but now the rain has tapered off. The clouds are breaking up and the sun, still hidden behind the ridge, has painted them yellow and orange and pink.

A crow calls. The moon is a discarded fingernail clipping, white against a patch of blue.