Every day I make dinner
Pulling together ingredients
Combining protein, carb, green veg
Assembling flavors, layers
Soaking
Simmering
Searing
Smoking
Roasting
Toasting
Every day I make dinner
Because I am desperate
An invisible plague everywhere
No way to stop it
But to hide with my family
Every day I make dinner
To draw my family together
To hold them close at the table
To call my wife back
From her suddenly dangerous calling
Leading women through the terror and triumph
Of birth
And now scared
Air filled with death
Even as life abounds
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