Most satisfying:

Dogs breath steaming in sunlight -

Winter morning walk.

4 embarrassed eyes

Stare over the mattress edge:

Dog shit on the floor.

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Summer morning mist

Just reaches to the hubcaps:

Old car in the woods.

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

She rose before me:

Indentation of her head

Left on her pillow

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

One plaintive “Meow”

Beside the bed this morning:

Old cat wants breakfast

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

“Black turtle, yellow soup”

The phrase in my mind this morning

Just before waking

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Quiet Sunday morning

Everyone else is asleep

Spoon clank in teacup

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Four companions:

Cat, tea, book, sharp pain in spine

Sit here this morning.

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Woke up this mornin’

I was feelin’ mighty bad:

Carolina blues

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

First thought on waking:

Did they publish my letter?

The Sunday papers

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

“Better do it fast

Whatever you plan to do.”

Workday morning sex.

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Burst of rain at dawn

Cleared deck of works in progress

Left undone for days

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

Those cats! Hard to tell

If they’re fighting or fucking

From the yowls they make

(via Twitter / John Hicks)

I will sleep until

(through dog pig cat and bird song)

I want to get up

Wide awake at 5

Sunday morning high alert

Old men need less sleep?