Summer phone call . . .

Sure, I’ll make the salsa:

Two green onions, chopped fine.

Three ripe tomatoes,

I picked them this morning,

diced and pulped just a little.

Half a cup of cilantro.

A bud of garlic, minced, salt, 

a smidge of red pepper flakes.

The last ingredient, a squeezed lime.

Oh, how I wish for a ripe mango

fresh from the market,

diced and mixed in.

Bring some Rosarita’s and a few bottles

of beer. Yes, Dos Equis, Amber.

We’ll sit out back on the patio

as the afternoon fades to dusk

and watch the deer come out to graze.