Aroused,
To pricked-ear
Attention

Prone

Basking unaware

In the reflection of
These sturdy, old
Horse-hair-plastered
Bedroom walls’

Vanilla light

Helios’ rising

Cheerily
Unapologetic

Towing mercilessly
His dawning dissonant
Screeching radiance

High and wide
East to west, north to south
Bubbling brilliantly on
The breaking day’s
Golden horizon
Melting
Night’s indigo darkness
Into brighter hues of
Azure blue

Silently
He trumpets
His intrusive morning jeer

Wakening, uninvited
The midnight dreamer
From sound and peaceful pause

Grumpily

Thoughts gather
Like looming
Swirling clusters, of leaden-grey
Milky white winter clouds

Pregnant with ice
With cryptocrystalline
Flakes of unfallen snow

The season enduring in spirit

Well
and Beyond
My resign’ed
Flaccid reception
of December’s intrusive
Annual resurrection

Blaming heaven
and Earth
For this heralding
AM intruder
I wonder:
Just
How many other
People
Circumstances and
Celestial bodies

Unable to harness, I’ll be

On this forever
So long and
Longed-for
April morn’s
Luminescing