Threshold
From Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021) by Divya Victor. Copyright © 2021 by Divya Victor. Used with the permission of the author.
(Being an Occasional Poem for All Q&As Henceforth)For Jamal Cyrus and Tomás Morin, and all kith who make do to make work
“Do you also make work that isn’t political?”
I mean, do we make work
about where and when we were
raised: the three-whistle corner store