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.

8/17/25 6:00 55f (12.7c) Clear sky with a few scattered clouds.

Fruit trucks, laden with bins, rumble by.

A squadron of jay’s screeching in low, land in the big maple, beneath the waning crescent moon. The rooster provides air traffic control, assigning proper approaches with loud authority.

Walter and I observe with amusement as the logistics of a new morning unfold.