Provisions

Portrait of Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood 1939–

What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey

So here we are in thin raincoats and rubber boots

On the disastrous ice, the wind rising

Nothing in our pockets

But a pencil stub, two oranges Four Toronto streetcar tickets

and an elastic band holding a bundle of small white filing cards printed with important facts.

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