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.

6/30/25 5:30 58f(14.4c) featureless blue sky, calm with that early summer morning light which reveals everything without a hint of direction. The silence is broken by a prop plane clawing through the air for points south. It awakens the rooster and disturbs a squadron of jays. Orchard sprayers lumber into life across the surrounding hills, taking advantage of a morning without wind to distribute their loads of chemicals. Cherry cannons begin to boom, but Walter is still limping, too sore to bark or hide.