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.
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 orchard fans
flogging the morning
Above them a lonely star glitters
as if attempting to outshine
the inevitable light rising
to the east
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