santos scribes

burnt cookie sheets and  

cutting boards with 

cuts older than  

both children 

cream cheese smears of  

everything bagels gone by 

unidentifiable black and  

yellow bits of  

spongey, slimy  

What-Have-Yous 

last night’s ________________ 

soaking in the dinner pan 

5 cups of  

assorted measurement  

for sugars and  

nuts 

and blueberries and  

seeds

and  

bread flour  

(a complete set) 

coffee-kissed 

mugs, spilt tea leaves and  

a mesh wire ball 

what will tomorrow 

bring? coffee beans ground into  

grinds that miss the  

compost bucket and  

gather like ants in  

the sink’s deep pockets

in the tile grooves too

puddled coffee from 

this morning’s traveling mug(s) 

lukewarm & waiting for 

soapy sponged hands 

a purple plastic plate matches  

size not color of  

the rainbow-colored rest

crusted oatmeal 

gelatinous jelly 

stuck pancake batter 

banana threads 

chipped Portuguese porcelain 

peanut butter-soaked spoon(s) 

jagged blades, pointed forks 

and the good knife that  

took time to  

get use to

and water  

of course water  

drops, sprays

rivers

pools 

todays water is muddy and  

yellow  globbed

floating with 

the fat of 

an animal 

or maybe

just the  

oil of  

an olive 

about this poem

this week my kids were home on spring break. finding designated time to write was sparser than usual, so I kept a sheet of paper on a clipboard in the kitchen & made lines with what I saw…thanks for reading- xo, s.