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.

5/15/26 45F (7.2C) Broken cloud cover drifts above wet ground.

It rained some more last night.

An inconstant breeze flutters the oaks’ leaves, making them shimmer.

A crow caws over the cooing of doves, like the rasping smoker’s voice of a bar floozy drinking whiskey and talking to herself while college girls out on the town discuss each other’s prospects at the next table.

A long forgotten fragment of memory intrudes upon my morning soak.

The sun rises on an aging man reclining in hot water, staring blankly at the past.