About Dinner....

The shift not readily apparent,
but it is there nonetheless,
the home cook's efforts to guide
her children toward nutritional
awareness trading off the
less-favoured main course
packed with the goodness of
whole foods of high value
for the anticipated prized dessert
to follow - and now they are
adults, committed themselves
to the responsibility once held
by their mother - who attends to
the tradition initiated back then,
negotiating daily similar
outcomes with their father.