What is home:
it is the shade of trees on my way to school
    before they were uprooted.
It is my grandparents’ black-and-white wedding
    photo before the walls crumbled.
It is my uncle’s prayer rug, where dozens of ants
   slept on wintry nights, before it was looted and
   put in a museum.
It is the oven my mother used to bake bread and
   roast chicken before a bomb reduced our house
   to ashes.
It is the café where I watched football matches
   and played—

My child stops me: Can a four-letter word hold
   all of these?