june vacation recipe
—a real humdinger!
1930’s camp,
maine pond, new friends next door,
nine days, warm temps—serves 2
—dotty seiter
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~6.75 x 7.5″; watercolor, pencil, and collage on paper
temporary assemblage of all paper-tile units from a living work in progress
2026
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Notes about poem and art:
• I didn’t notice until several weeks after I wrote “june vacation recipe” that, except for its first “word”—which is actually in numerical form—it is made up entirely of one-syllable words, truly a humdinger of a recipe! While this haiku holds the traditional 17 syllables, I tweaked the recipe—as all good chefs do—in this case with lines of 5, 6, 6 instead of 5, 7, 5.
• I have loved inventing a free-form recipe and cooking up Hail, Hail, improvising and adjusting seasonings en route. The title of the collective piece has a double significance: first, all the pieces found their way back to being in one place together and, second, that reunion took place at camp where the welcome song ends with the words, Hail, hail, the gang’s all here while you’re at Takodah Camp!
dottyseiter: now playing 
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