People learn sewing from their grandmothers Then there is me Separated from my land of birth Speaking a language foreign to my ancestors Learning sewing from YouTube Years as the oldest child in an immigrant home has made me forget how to ask for help and how to receive it from my family Guardians of an elsewhere tradition what can they know that I can’t learn from the internet? What can they know? When I can know better. I know best. I know best. I must know best. I must.
















