Almost a Meal

garden donations:

(nice to have gardening friends

who offer seeds, plants)

Remotely Burned

endless tabs open

Google Meets tries to cheer us

but we’re stuck on screens

Making It Work

remote learning sucks

except with a cat or mat

how we love our home

Ode to Toaster Oven

why yes, i bake things

(zucchini things in summer)

feels like Hell’s Kitchen

my oven burned me

burned us all with its heat spread

well, not anymore

that’s right, baby:

a 9×13 glass dish,

two 8-inch cake pans

this Breville will hold

a 12-inch cast iron pan

without burning us

worth every penny

(it’s not even Christmas yet)

boy am i ready

Trapped (Not Trapped)

sometimes i think: Hell.

twenty days of solid heat.

(Denver in summer)

and then i recall

our glorious altitude

and misty mornings

i will swim for views

only captured here at home

(Denver forever)

Put It in Anything!

zucchini again

hidden in pesto pasta,

garden tomatoes

Your Garden Daily

zucchini tonight:

soon to be my life story–

sweet stuffing, hard shell

Symbols of this Day

a cake that collapsed,

a zucchini casserole

without zucchini

Sky Rat

if only these were clouds

not fucking with my haiku syllable count

but actually pouring down rain instead of smoke

if only we didn’t have cactus along the Front Range

to remind us of

how harshly we’ve parched this Earth

how we’ve stolen the sky with fires

how these are not clouds trying to hide

the ever-present sun

Fire and Ice

water still as ice

while wildfires choke sky

with climate change breath