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.

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The moon has slipped into its final quarter, suspended in a dirty sky, high above the maple tree.

This morning is grey and smells like ashes. There is no wind.

It is too smokey to enjoy a soak.

Amy and I followed Walter around with a cup taped to a stick to collect a first morning urine sample. There are no photographs to preserve the modesty of those involved.

Amy has gone back to bed. I may do so as well.

Good morning.