these summer rainstorms
bring breezy joy to hot days
(save us from the drought)
my former student
once a refugee herself
now teaches me hope
making me these masks
so i can mouth English words
as when i taught her
Cool Down. Breathe.
gratitude
Rainbow Roots
of little promise
this underdeveloped root
(thought i’d just get blooms)
but underground joy
arrives when you keep digging
to find the rainbow
Solar Products
dawn clouds framing trees
parmesan zucchini, please
(sunlit expertise)
So Hot. So Worth It.
a hike can’t save us.
the heat seems to want us dead.
but the masks? yes. yes.
all the Boulderites.
they get it. even on trails.
why is it so hard?
you could have this view.
away from the pandemic.
if you’d just listen.
Home Again
zucchinis have popped
my three-year-old magnet proves
that i have foresight
(go where your heart calls,
where those images beckon.
stand in waterfalls)
Road Trip 2020 (Swim Me a Snake)
the river’s icy
the current is too strong, son
but no one stops us
i can never look
without wanting to dive in
to fully swim. live.
they get this from me.
these kids who are not my kids.
these kids who are mine.
we swim for ice cream.
for these fleeting memories.
for their childhoods.
Pastry Heaven Surprise
love, in Portugal:
these perfect pastries, melted;
now just down the block
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
Road Trip 2020, Day Nine
tent without a fly
for another river day
flanked by swimming dogs
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