A Warm Morning

Morning hush —

Heat builds,
leaves glitter.

Into pure silver
dissolves the shade.

Birds call
winging it
to higher, darker places,
any eve
where tattered night
may hide,

seeking retreat
from day's clear,
searing eye.

(9/2011 - 5/2018)

daybreak

Photo: Brian Federle, Palm Springs Dawn, December 2016

daybreak, still limbs lace

to gray sky, wait for the next

storm to shake open

morning, still sleeping

shuttered windows conceal the

cold face of daybreak.

(1/22/2012 - 8/29/2017)

Morning

light, liquid, over-

flowing bright leaf, washing clean

night’s graven, dull stain.

Aubade Wake Up and See

Wake

up

and see

how the sun

lights the top-most leaves

sets astir the delta breeze, shrugs

off night and drives darkness down into the flashing sea!