commuter's tanka a campfire smell ignites memories of pleasant days the sky has turned orange they say Canada is burning my wife's flight and every other flight is cancelled today she says a boat blew through a friend's home. why rebuild? my sister's cottage catches the muddy breeze off the river spillover engulfs her kitchen she's on a floodplain now. we kids ran to capture elegant monarchs when they flocked in july I have seen one this year there are a lot of mosquitoes roasting records have people talking at the coffee shop on the seventh day the grid gives out