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.

6/9/26 6:15 52F (11C) Blustery, gray and damp.

The waning crescent moon hangs in a patch of blue, showing through the torn fabric of clouds, rent by a belligerent west wind.

The rain has paused but I expect it to resume at any moment.

There was a chorus of frogs this morning, the first I’ve heard in quite some while.

Now I hear the wind whipping through the oaks with a background chatter of orchard fans up on Willow Flat, probably a desperate attempt to blow water off the cherry crop.

Good morning.