Serendipity

Rocketing awake

Cat nose on my face

Flashed with heat

Flush with irritation

Throw off the sheet

Ransack the drawers

Jam feet in sneaks

Bolt out the door

To find that

5 am is cool

and dry

Pale light balm to August eyes
Arpeggio-ed by birds

Blessedly bereft of

Traffick

Cranky crowds

Sidewalk barren but for

Dog walker here

A fellow runner there

All with smiles for a member of the

Secret club of

Not-asleep

"Attack of the Killer Badger" from
Magic Forest