Veterans Day. Brenda's home from work.
We watch a show on television on new Scandinavian cooking.
Brown goat cheese and lingonberries. A venison roast with fresh
juniper berries, ground, imported botanicals. J-I-N. Gin.
She makes pancakes with bananas for breakfast. I have Tupelo honey
on mine, for the arthritis in my hands. I can't open a jar of jelly.
She says Owen should have a cooking show. Or Balder. Or me.
She has a new shiitake mushroom.

The chicken wire protects a row of garlic
she planted from her chickens. The coffee can
is what she brings the coffee grinds for her citrus plants
home in. We are not tidy housekeepers. This extends to the yard.
The garden. I am my own paparazzo. Irascible "Razz" Heap.