Summer Mornings

I’ll miss summer mornings on the lake. Waking before sunrise to rooster-like loon calls. Sipping coffee as the sky passes black to blue via orange, the primordial seeming low, silver fog, the first searing glints of reflected daylight like bright angels announcing morning. Jumping in that electrically cold water and moments later - shivering in the towel’s warm, comforting embrace as the fresh day starts to warm.