Living Together

They prepare dinner

For children and grandchildren

She bakes the beans

Slices the onions

Peels the tomatoes

He cleans the grill

And prepares the porch

The grill is hot, he says

She brings the burgers

He sends them

Sizzling on the grill

I need a spatula, he says

He returns to the kitchen

The spatula, he calls

Where is it?

She joins him

In the kitchen

Both return

With the spatula

He flips the burgers

He lives here, she says

But he doesn’t know

Where anything is