BAMBI POETICS

Yes dears. I continue in my farming incompetence by not knowing when to harvest. Look at those cucumbers! Too big, and so they will be left in a certain place on the mountain to feed the deer. Don't tell my vintner neighbors. They tend to shoot the deer since deer also love to munch on their grapes.

Anyway, the big harvest news this year is that my tomatoes are a success, versus last year's "crop". Domestic Goddess here even learned to make Italian bread salad which is, after all, very difficult. You mix the usual tomato, basil and mozzarella with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. To make it into a bread salad, you then take a hunk of bread, tear it into little pieces, and include it in the mix where it lovingly soaks up the yummy juices. Very nice. Yes dears, do come to this blog, too, to learn about cooking.

And now, here's my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List:

SPRING/SUMMER HARVEST:
1 stalk of "miner's weed"
110 stalks of green onion
98 strawberries
2 artichokes
2 cherries
16 zucchini
4 stalks of scallions
18 summer squash
14 cucumbers
560 tomatoes
17 figs
11 bell peppers
53 leaves of basil (Michael "harvests" them leaf by leaf)
11 cucumbers
9 squash blossoms
160 chives
19 jalapenos
15 bunches of house grapes


(Right below also is my usual list of PUBLICATIONS -- just to clarify since one of youse asked the other week, this is not a list of books that I receive or buy (the latter having its own BOUGHT POETRY posts). This is a list of PUBLICATIONS that I've actually read!)

PUBLICATIONS
ARCHIPELAGO DUST, poems by Karen Llagas (newest release from Meritage Press. Very SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER here)

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, hay(na)ku collaborative poem anthology curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios (Very SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER here!)

INSTRUCTIONS TO A MAP: A SELECTION OF MY SYLLABIC VERSE by Bill Knott

VERTICAL ELEGIES: THREE WORKS, poems by Sam Truitt

WINGS WITHOUT BIRDS, poems by Brian Henry

ARCTIC POEMS by Vicente Huidobro, trans. by Nathan Hoks

HARD TO PLACE: ONE FAMILY'S JOURNEY THROUGH ADOPTION, memoir/poetry therapy by Marion Goldstein

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: AN ADOPTION STORY, memoir by James Derk

LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE: WHAT TWO DOGS TAUGHT ONE VETERINARIAN ABOUT HOPE, HUMILITY, AND EVERYDAY MIRACLES by Nick Trout

FALLING APART IN ONE PIECE, memoir by Stacy Morrison

THE CHRISTMAS DOG, novel by Melody Carlson

COOCH, novel by Robert Cook

ADAM, novel by Ted Dekker

CAPITOL BETRAYAL, novel by William Bernhardt

CAPITOL MURDER, novel by William Bernhardt

MURDER ONE, novel by William Bernhardt

CAPITOL CONSPIRACY, novel by William Bernhardt

SEEING RED, novel by Susan Randall


WINES
2003 JP Belle-Terroir
2004 Teusner Albert Barossa Valley
2004 3Rings Shiraz Barossa Valley
2004 Dutch Henry cabernet
2006 Dutch Henry merlot
2009 Dutch Henry sauvignon blanc
2007 Dutch Henry zinfandel
1995 Condado De Haza Alenza
1995 Togni cabernet