Today When I Awake by Robert K. Johnson too early, my swarm of hulking fears-- squatters in me I can never oust-- stand ready to use the night-dark room to quickly storm, overwhelm my mind.                                         But the window shows-- behind my yard's black blot of trees-- a sky, dawn calm, begin to glow; gifts me a heightening hint of gold that promises, as it slowly widens, to define the greening leaves' curved tips, the thinnest twigs, each blade of grass-- a whole army of tangibles to help me be fearless all day long. Robert K. Johnson United States Robert K. Johnson is a former Suffolk University professor who has had poems published in Main Street Rag, Ibbetson Street, Presa and many other magazines. His most recent collections of poems are From Mist To Shadow and Flowering Weeds.