here

here 
Wherever you have friends, that’s your country; 
wherever you receive love, that’s your home. 
—old Tibetan saying reported by the 14th Dalai Lama

nerve pain, 
something it drinks
draining    and yet

hoping to sleep
resting in whatever,
unexpected thankfulness 
washes in—beloveds
green-growing things
food on the table
a roof     my country    
my home 

so much