familial guilt

my mother
is on injured
reserve, leg
up in a cast
having fallen
going to the
basement to
get a tupperware
container of
frozen spaghetti
sauce, and a
tray of meatballs
she made three
months ago.
they are wrapped
in foil, and in
plastic,and tucked
inside a freezer
burn bag
marked meatballs.
and this has led
her to call me
to ask me for dinner.
the call comes
on my cell phone,
which shocks me,
not knowing that
she had that number.
i give her a maybe.