Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
12/6/25 5:30 50F (10C) It is a warm moonlit morning with a fresh Chinook Wind blowing. I can almost taste the ocean in the breeze. I hear it coming through the firs on the ridge. Arriving, it gusts through the naked oaks and swirls the heaps of leaves at...
Good Morning
12/5/25 5:30 46F (7.7C) Raining, sometimes lightly, sometimes hard, but consistently wet. It is a gray morning, barely illuminated by a full moon hidden behind the clouds. I am sipping mint tea and watching headlights pass. Are my nieghbors sitting in...
Good Morning
12/4/25 6:30 34F (1.1C) There is a faint breeze. It is cool and cloudy. The moon is full but it cannot be seen. ...
Good Morning
12/3/25 6:00 34F (1.1C) A lavender mist is swirling around my face. ...
Good Morning
12/2/25 5:30 36F (2.2C) Calm, cold, relatively dry. The moon has gone to bed. It is a dark morning. Above me the broken clouds are flecked with stars. ...
Good Morning
12/1/25 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Silvery-gray freezing fog ebbing and flowing, sometimes dense and enveloping, sometimes retreating to the shadows of the surrounding trees. It hit freezing early last night and the temperature has dropped since then, making the first...
Good Morning
11/30/25 5:30 34F (1.1C) Cloudy, dark, still. It rained a little last night, but seems to have dried out. A car drives by. I see a couple of stars poke through the clouds low in the west. To the east, a neighbor's paranoid light rends the cloak of night...
Good Morning
11/29/25 5:30 32F (0.0C) Calm, cloudy and dark. The half moon was setting behind the oaks when I went to bed last night. This morning is dark and still, with a coat of ice. Fog is rising from the creek and creeping through the briars and rank grass. The...
Good Morning
11/28/25 8:30 41F (5C) Broad daylight. I slept in. It is a calm morning, with birds chittering, foggy around the edges. A light mist is falling from the gray clouds overhead. Yesterday the family was over, about thirty people, including seven kids. The house...
Good Morning
11/27/25 5:00 42F (5.5C) Cool, damp and dark. There is no wind. After a brief pause, it has started to rain again. Inside the tipi was dry and smoke curled from the ashes of last night's fire. I soon had a merry blaze ignited and piled hardwood on to hold it...
