In the poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo, she embraces ideas of family and gathering. As a member of the Muskogee First Nations, Harjo embraces and embeds Indigenous values into her poetry. In this piece, she connects family and life to something as simple as a kitchen table. Harjo starts the poem with the stanza: “The world begins at a kitchen table”. No matter what, we must eat to live.” (line 1). This expresses that from the beginning, the kitchen table starts out as the blueprint of life. She next goes into detail about how the metaphor for the kitchen table is directly tied to the circle of life. The line “Babies teethe” at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.” (Harjo, Line 3) tells the reader that the table connects