Sunday Dinners

tonight it's five of us gathered around some candles on
the back porch, left-over BBQ and buns, a fresh green salad,
a few beers, comraderie amongst family, Sunday dinner.
she's the fifth tonight, usually too far away to join us,
yet today she dropped this hint that Sunday dinners may be
a bigger draw than I dared hope for, that pull of family that
loves you no matter what, in this way, I feel I have
succeeded if this, this thing called love, has a gravitational pull,
mixed with left over BBQ, a few beers and a fresh green salad.