a new day...

 I pop a wheat bagel 

     in the toaster

& sit down

        just in time

to catch

   the mysterious magic

of the morning... 

 Wide awake at 4am

as the sky begins 

     to lighten

         & the birds sing

 their greetings to 

   another day...

  It has been a restless 

night,

    full of tossing 

        & turning... 

sleep passing me by,

     only long enough 

to taunt me... 

 Again,

   I look down to see

my hands & arms

    covered in paint

from the night before,

  where I sat

on the front porch

    & painted to the

sounds of the night

& to City and Color 

  

   as I watched

Diana pack up her car

    and drive away... 

I look up, 

   and the sky is now

filled with light... 

   a new day, 

     promising 

      new beginnings...