5:45AM In July

gathers me




as morning
opens and 
gathers me,  


stillness - even
a tinge of 
sound - echoes
sleep and 
peacefulness 
for this day: 


encouraging, 
it is, to imagine
this as the 
ongoing 
norm. 




Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo © 2009 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by cell phone, Greece, NY.