Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
10/28/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Cloudy, calm, dark. Amy is sleeping. The nieghbors rose earlier, rattling the pipes with their morning shower. Outside it looks about the same as yesterday: dry, still dark, some traffic and a few people walking. A bicycle went by...
Good Morning
10/27/25 6:30 46F (7.7C) The city glows through a thin fog, the sounds of Monday morning traffic muffled by thick curtains and 115 year old brick walls of the Hotel Sorrento. A jet rumbles overhead. An ambulance wails up Madison, climbing the steep hill...
Good Morning
10/26/25 7:00 41F (5C) The wind and rain have stopped for the moment, replaced by a light breeze and the soft tapping rattle of water falling from the trees onto leaves already covering the ground. The approaching light has chased away all but the brightest...
Good Morning
10/25/25 5:00 40F (4.4C) Another dark morning. Cloudy with an occasional star shining through the breaks. Yesterday's rain did not amount to much. This morning the deck is dry. ...
Good Morning
10/24/25 7:00 44F (6.6C) Cloudy with rain forecast in the afternoon. My arms no longer hurt from the vaccinations I got Monday. That took a little longer than I expected, but not too bad. Flu, covid, and pneumonia. Still need the second shingles shot. Getting...
Good Morning
10/23/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Clear, cool, dry, and calm. A bird is chittering. Walter Dawg is napping on the deck with one eye open. Amy is up, probably sitting in her easy chair playing solitaire on the laptop. My tea is exactly the right...
Good Morning
10/22/25 6:00 39F (3.8C) I awoke to a still morning, the sky full of glittering stars. It is so dark I had to feel my way across the deck to the tub. Overhead in the cold blackness, the twins watch Orion stalk his prey into the oaks. The dogs cavort...
Good Morning
10/21/25 6:45 38F (3.3C) Light breeze, new moon, overcast. Cool, damp and grey. I scrubbed the stale taste of last night's dreams from my mouth and my tea is washing the flavor of toothpaste away. Soaking in the darkness I listen to the whir of tires on damp...
Good Morning
10/20/25 5:30 45F (7.2C) No wind. Dark, cool, relatively dry. ...
Good Morning
10/19/25 7:00 47F (8.3C) Overcast with a cool breeze. It's been raining and everything is wet. The air is spiced with the tang of wood smoke from morning fires. I hear someone walking around. Women's voices or perhaps children They have set Walter to barking....
