& to chance

To English actors with undetectable American accents—somehow, it seems, that’s the way it’s meant to be

To the happy black toddler in a room full of whites, who means every smile

To a sister in art school, at the nexus of everything

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To friends who call unexpectedly & happily

To the library reserve system stream, its fingers in every delta

& to the chance to change