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.

5/24/25 6:00 44f (6.66c) Clear and calm. Orchard sprayers whine in the distance. The rooster, still confined in the henhouse, is complaining.

My dog is having a spirited discussion with the dogs down the street. Birds are singing, the ubiquitous doves adding a foreign note to the cacophony. Across the road a crew bangs aluminum ladders down the rows of trees.

I sit here, submerged in a weak solution of bleach, sipping my tea, enjoying another quiet morning in the country.