Your Plate's Still Warm

Your Plate's Still Warm

Rhodes low in the living room
One candle leaning in a jar
I burned the first pan of onions
So dinner is running late so far
I text, Come if you still want to
No question mark, no little test
Slide one chipped blue plate in the oven
And let the room do all the rest

No perfect entrance
No reason to perform

Your plate's still warm, come when you can
Your plate's still warm, no master plan
I kept the plate warm, not the pressure on
Your plate's still warm, stay if you want

You arrive with bent carnations
Grocery-store ribbon half undone
Say the bus broke down on Seventh
I say the rice survived, so we won
Shoes by the mat, coat on the chair
You laugh at the smoke alarm
The whole night gets more beautiful
The less it looks like what I planned

Your plate's still warm, come when you can
Your plate's still warm, no master plan
I kept the plate warm, not the pressure on
Your plate's still warm, stay if you want

That chipped blue plate waited in the oven
Longer than my little speech could last
I kept the plate warm, not the pressure on
And somehow that made you come back

Your plate's still warm, flowers in a jar
Your plate's still warm, we made it this far
No perfect entrance, no pressure on
Your plate's still warm, stay till the record is gone

Your Plate's Still Warm

Your Plate's Still Warm