Divided into five chapters, this thesis is a thought exercise on various memories, conditions, ideologies, beliefs, experiences, ideas, and disillusionment that I have sustained from the earliest recollection of my life to the present. I use time and place as grounding in engaging with each of these concerns, whether I'm writing about present issues, as in the opening three poems of the collection, or returning to earlier moments and places in my life, as in the "Street Recollections" series. I love to describe the goal of the project as low stake and self-serving, in that I was trying to return to and begin to resolve traumatic moments in my life; rethink some existential opinions that were passed down to me; make sense of a strange natural, cultural and social environment as a newcomer in the US; find closure for people I have lost. Technically, I had attempted to deliver the poems in a plain-speaking language, to make the poems rather direct in tone. This way, the voice is one of the most intentional features of the project, keeping it consistent from the opening to the closing poems, whatever the subject matter or person point of view of the individual poems.