Sauce Day T-Shirt cat the neighbors have stopped answering

the neighbors have stopped answering the door

dressed for anything with acorns in hand and atop her head

Red against bare wood is the kind of color that stops you at the window

prized in old Chesapeake kitchens and nearly lost before seed savers brought it back

Sauce Day T-Shirt cat the neighbors have stopped answeringFor gardeners who grow paste tomatoes by the row, all of them headed for the same big pot. Sauce day has a rhythm to it. The colander fills and refills, the kitchen fogs up, the whole house takes on that low simmer of tomatoes and garlic that means late summer is doing its work. By evening the jars line up cooling on the towel, and each ping of a sealing lid lands like a small satisfaction. Romas from the farmers market and the garden both, grown by