"A woman is waiting
I do not know how much longer she must attend
In silence to the memory of water.
My own hands are empty
There is nothing to hold."
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Prescription for Water by Jiameng Xu
collected in The Covid Journals (2023 University of Alberta Press)
edited by Shane Neilson, Sarah Fraser and Arundhati Dhara https://tinyurl.com/4s3mhuzf