Written on 3 January 2012; published on 31 December 2018; republished on 16 December 2020

Image: “Great White Egrets in Malibu,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2012, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com .. 

Image: “Great White Egrets in Malibu,” by Alice B. Clagett, 2012, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com .. 

ARUBA WAKEUP
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
3 January 2012

I turn away from the morning sun
and feel the breeze
chuckle through my open balcony doors,
tapping my back
flowing right through me
filling the room
with the scent of the sea
and – what’s that?
a whiff of hibiscus?

……….

Alice B. Clagett

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