by Vernon Wade | May 8, 2020
My morning walk takes me past landmarks no longer there: Coe Primary, where I attended first and second grade, now offices. Down the street, third and fourth grade gone. Only a park remains Last year, May Street School razed, replaced by a brick...
by Vernon Wade | Apr 17, 2020
I lie perfectly still, refusing to open my eyes, refusing to roll over struggling with my own thoughts desperate for just another thirty minutes of repose Outside a bird calls from high in a tree striving to make its song heard above the incessant noise of...
by Vernon Wade | Apr 9, 2020
I walk out under a dark blue, faintly luminescent sky The moon, one day past full, shines down on the hot tub My morning routine has become an anti-viral struggle against the pandemic Systems check: Water clear, thin islands of bubbles, 103 degrees,...
by Vernon Wade | Jan 24, 2020
Long before daybreak Roosters crowing in the fog of winter snowmelt
by Vernon Wade | Jan 9, 2020
1~4~2016 Home at last Driveway white with snow Happy dogs