Thus Daylight Woke

 

 

Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia
picture (c) 2015, d. benning

 

 

 The muted light,
     the colors soft,
          the morning light so moist and drawn,
The gray-draped rain
     with petrichor washed—
          thus daylight woke with quiet yawn.

-d. benning, (c) 2021