Road Trip 2020 (Montana, Day 1)

drive through Wyoming

until you reach this heaven

that is Montana

The Cooler Fits

kids will never know

how much planning is involved

in any road trip

one day they will see

the weeks of planning, packing

to fill-up this car

Coronatine Victory Garden

a small victory

using my hands to plant peas

as they fought spring snow

as they outgrew me

using my hands to pick peas

during quarantine

they made two harvests

using my hands to shell peas

a small victory

Pockets of Hope

Colorado hikes:

definition of summer

plush with Columbines

Grown Not Flown

my childhood home

with trees my parents planted

taller than our lives

Pastry Heaven Surprise

love, in Portugal:

these perfect pastries, melted;

now just down the block

Cilantro (Culantro)

he corrected me

even though it’s in Spanish

white buds. so pretty.

‘no’ is a new word

yet so familiar to me.

so adolescent.

we’ll see where this goes.

a flat road to nowhere fast?

or the sky, endless?

We Can Pretend

a lazy lake day

calmer than a quarantine

peace (so far from peace).

Corona Caution

a bike ride downtown

to this perfect patio

almost like old times

That Camp Life

scored a miracle:

thirty percent off this tent

the day i gave in

dream tent and dream house:

they go so well together

just like our family