Answer:
It contributes to the speaker's feeling of coming home.
Explanation:
The speaker of the poem shows how he returns to return home, since he says that the whole story he created in his head revolves around this feeling, of returning home. This feeling arises when the speaker has a feeling of comfort, since when a student asks permission to say a prayer, the speaker feels comfortable and begins to imagine "the white flurries / breezing into the sand gusts outside my old house / in the desert ”
