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.

12/10/25 6:30 58F (14.4C) Wild, warm, and windy.

The moon, waning towards half, is playing hide and seek in the clouds.

It is blowing hard. Maple seeds spiral to the ground and the few remaining oak leaves are ripped from their branches. Warm wind buffets my naked skin. Clouds tear across the horizon, rapidly moving east.

The rain has paused but I expect it to resume in earnest. The ground is sodden. There will be trees coming down.

Somewhere the most junior member of a news team is standing in the rain, waiting for catastrophe.