Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
9/21/25 6:00 57F (13.8C) New moon. Cloudy with a light breeze. Very dark this morning. The all cricket chorus is in full song, belting out their greatest hits. Walter has joined a spirited conversation with the dogs down the street. I tell him to...
Good Morning
9/20/25 6:30 55F (12.7C) Clear sky, light breeze. The morning started quietly. Just a single, discosolate croak from a corvid, hidden in the darkness. But now the rooster is crowing and birds are squawking. I just put Walter in the house because...
Good Morning
9/19/25 6:00 53F (11.6C) It is a dark blue twilight. The earth takes a breath and leaves flutter in the faint breeze. A Turkish moon hangs in the east. Just a fingernail, ready to wink out, with Venus hovering over the southern horn. ...
Good Morning
9/18/25 6:30 54F (12.2C) Another calm, dark morning. The waning moon pokes its horns through the maple leaves. The sky dances with color. Morning ascends as twilight loses its grip on the night and slips away. ...
Good Morning
9/17/25 6:30 53F (11.6C) A lone crow, voice raw and cracking, flys north across the empty vault . The east begins to lighten, first a brilliant blue, brighter than the rest of the sky, changing hue, lavender, orange, yellow, before blending into a...
Good Morning
9/16/25 7:00 50F (10C) I look up into the pale blue sky. There is no wind. Birds are chattering, dogs bark. There are cars moving this morning; tires whirring and the burble of muffled exhaust announce their passing. I slept well last night and...
Good Morning
9/15/25 7:00 48F (8.8C) It is a cool morning, dark and breezy. The waning quarter moon rests on its back above a maple tree. The eastern sky begins to lighten, shades of lavender creeping into dark blue. A gunshot booms. A dog begins to bark....
Good Morning
9/14/25 6:00 59F (15C) No wind. Moon waning into the last quarter. Cloudy with rain predicted. The rooster is crowing and the dog is barking. The commotion echoes up the canyon. ...
Good Morning
9/13/25 7:00 55F (12.7C) A calm, cool morning, absent any wind. The half moon hangs high in a pale, blue sky, beginning the last third of its transit across the southern horizon. A train sounds its horn at the crossing near Pine Grove, loud even at this...
Good Morning
9/12/25 6:00 55F (12.7C) It seems dark this morning, even with the waning moon shining high above me. It is a tranquil dawn. Daylight seeps in from the east. A cricket and an owl sing a soft duet in the shadows. ...
