early rising: sharpen focus

[emchy]

i left the house at 7am this morning
an interesting thing about 7am
it smells alive
the trees were breathing their green into my face
and maybe it was fog
maybe it was god
but i could see my breath in the 4th floor air
mixing with the redwood exhalation
and the sunny side up
warm orange runny
of the light coming up over the apartments
in the backyard
from the east bay

i got my coffee
from the communist cafe
and waited for the empty bus
with an older guy
laughing at the crowed bus passing us
and i told him
"you know - i don't usually get up this early
but the air smells really green"

he laughed
"it really does"
and then the next bus arrived.