Good Morning
(Recited on November 13, 2018 at the Senior Center Veterans Celebration)
Morning mist rising
Before the kids roll out of bed.
Coffee steams before cream
Settles in.
Sun streams between pines,
Lightening the lake,
Brightening the spider’s web.
My neighbor’s fragrant morning fire
Wafts over the bellied-up boats.
Murmurs of voices from across the lake;
Murmurs of frogs from the island;
Osprey diving, rising with breakfast.
The fisherman’s fly line
Arcs, framing Monet’s clouds,
Castle Peak, and my friends
Calling from their canoe:
“Good Morning!”