Ground Provisions

Ground Provisions

I learn about ground provisions, 

from my grandmother who tells my 12 year-old self, 

"You don't need to eat meat 

everyday." 

She tells me about ground 

provisions- yam, cassava, eddoes- 

food that grows underground, 

"Slave food," she says, 

"and breadfruit too."

"These are the foods

 that sustained our ancestors- 

Slaves. 

These are the foods that have 

sustained us." 

"You don't need to eat meat 

everyday," 

my grandmother says, while 

making oil down, 

all you need is ground provisions.