A Ripple Begins

Early mornings, before the wind
and others, sleeping late, arise,
the lake is smooth, mirrored,
glass, the calm of water sleeping,
perhaps dreaming undisturbed, and
waking slowly, warmed by morning’s light,
a ripple begins -- a fish breaking the surface feeding,
a bubble formed below rising, to burst
and break the smoothness, or the wake of a loon,
like me, alone, rising early,
beginning, today, this day
waking, warmed by morning’s light,
a ripple beginning.