EARLY MORNING

Early morning
hearing Grieg's
"Solveig Song"
on the radio
we're watching
the flakes from the sky
from my window
watching the soccer league
on the football field
near their locker room
shielded from the snow
and my cat's shadow
on the flagstones
as we awake
hoping nothing
will go wrong
as I'm atoning
at the Cape Cod point
playing riffs from my sax
trying to meditate
and relax
exercising my joints
and bones.