The months of limited travel and social gatherings during the pandemic have meant more time at home and, for many, more time in the kitchen. That was the inspiration for this Typewriter Rodeo poem.
Cabin Fever On Preheat 350
They tell us we should still be
doing something write the poem
about your father this time
this time tell us how sad you really are
about the heaviness of lonliness
but make it pretty cut the lines
in two plant some succulents
on your front porch see, you’re still
alive bake banana bread & chocolate
chip cookies & sourdough bread we are
all still working so, I write
about how the word heavy is not enough
and I bake banana bread & I defrost
chicken to feed myself for the next 3 days
and from my kitchen window I watch the deer,
on their hindlegs, reaching for leaves.
