Waking as if in a strange
place—sunlight streaming in
not as usual alarm
but within a profound
silence
in a film dream.
Everything off:
dehumidifier, birds, breeze.
The universe
vibrant on hold—
before the woman upstairs
steps out of bed
my old addled fridge
begins whining
the alarm warns
it’s trash day
and the garbage can
in the hot garage
is ripe.
Diana Morley regularly publishes poetry online and in journals. She has published “Spreading Like Water” (2019), a chapbook, “Splashing” (2020), a poetry collection, and “Oregon’s Almeda Fire: From loss to renewal” (2021), a documentary of photos and poems.
