Top Drawer
Each morning I wake
eager to search online;
the latest news,
messages from friends,
funny videos on U-Tube,
or love notes from relatives living
in Belleville, Casper, or Sausalito.
The top-drawer of any morning
is listening to a familiar voice
pronounce names of notable writers,
born on said date, and list
their quirks, achievements,
titles of books written, etc.
Each day, he reads a poem
chosen to inform, comfort,
or entertain his audience,
the timbre of his voice as soothing
as a soft rain falling on a canopy.
I wait for his closing message,
and my voice joins his farewell
as we say these words together,
“Be well, do good work,
and keep in touch.”
No morning is complete
without The Writer's Almanac.
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