tonight he makes the salad
lettuce tomato cucumber onion
always a quietly cutup creation
I set the table
forks land softly on cloth napkins
glasses muffle on wicker mats
a whole day apart and what I notice
is the frig door opening and closing
that suck and splat of the rubber seal
even louder the microwave
as it groans for three minutes
twice
perhaps the tv news isn’t on
a great source of clamor and racket
unusual this stillness no word spoken
I was wrong tv’s been on
so now we sit quietly
chew and swallow and chew
and every noise from the large screen
guess my curiosity around our
mutual hush won’t get addressed
how can you listen to each other
when someone else
is doing all the talking?
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