Provisions
Provisions #1: “languages I didn’t know I wanted to know”
Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”
Provisions #3: “Pain was everywhere. Sprang out of everything”
Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”
Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Provisions #6: “In the exhalations of Americans there is a crumbling empire”
Provisions #7: “repair a world or build / a new one inside my body”
Provisions #8: “If I could just leave the old things to their trembling”
