son knocks on my door at 0530 "Mom i ran out of ☕ & do you want to play chess?"

well, no. no i don't😴

we do go to the grocery store to beat the apocalyptic crowds💡 shelves still empty from yesterday😂

24 inches of snow❔travel ban on all roads sun/mon- means NO knocks on my door😁 & i ❤️❄️. bring it!

suspended in the quiet on dawn's edge
watching time tug the stars forward
too tired for waking, too awake for dreaming—
and the light grazing the dark
is as warm as the waking sun

hovering between states still unnamed
i wonder—bed, or mug?

#earlymornings

📷miguel claro

📷

fragile, not broken
in the way a cloud
thins in a breeze

quiets from voices that bruise
just from passing by

here a place
where silence
& small poems
can come to rest—
without flinching

to lay my head awhile in light
falling just right—
where colors come alive

nothing asked—kept
a quiet refuge

to hold your own heart
tender, strong
against the storm
this, too, is love—

📷

it's the romantics
still feeling
the fire of light & love
burning in darkness