Re-write: Morning!

Heavy roasted smell earthy coffee brews stretches in the quiet morning stillness of a groggy dream addled slumbering house A dog’s impatient whine paces the space between sleep and awake somehow inserting itself into the landscape of dream Until an angry alarm shatters Screaming glassy and sharp Until dream fragments disappear into layers of blind […]

The Trail — A Poem about Enjoying Late Fall Nature

Walking in waist to shoulder Frost crowned grass standing Silent, still, and stiff the first to thaw and dry in the weak late year sun A forest within the forest On a frozen November morning Hard rutted truck tracks, Tread design clearly visible Like dinosaur footprints Serve as finely fossilized records Of slick rain soaked […]

Break of Day — A Poem about Waking Up

Heavy earth smell of coffee stretches in the morning stillness in a groggy sleep addled house A dog’s impatient whine paces the space between sleep and awake becoming another element of your dream An angry alarm shatteringly screams As glassy dream fragments disappear into layers of blind filtered sun Drowsing dust motes lazily drift along […]