This from Rattle, 2012

Blue Plate Special

Pork chops, potatoes, beans, gravy, and grief,

seasoned to taste and shared by the dead girl’s

father and boyfriend, the table talk sparse,

the dead girl not much mentioned, especially

the dead part, or how she dumped the boyfriend

a week before she died. The boyfriend drank beer,

the father, iced tea. The boyfriend had plans,

the father did not. The brother came late

and skipped dinner (not hungry, he said),

went upstairs and cried (they seemed not to hear). 

Then he came back and cleaned up his plate.

Then they all had coffee, ice cream, and pie.

Then they looked through a box of old photos

and then said goodbye, over and over again.