Laying Beside the Sunshine

My favorite part comes
when I wake from one
dream and roll into another
To morning, every day
is a holiday unspoiled,
only recognized by those
who know it’s tricks.
So I climb from cottony
dreams and emerge
from just-opened eyelids
and there you are,
morning’s present to me,
gift-wrapped in my blanket
and placed in my arms.

~ by Jessica Phillips on May 29, 2009.