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50 poems from Girlhood Is Like Godhood

15 poems

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// 001girlhood

Queen of No Kingdom

I made a kingdom out of what was left over.

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// 002girlhood

Girlhood is Like Godhood

girlhood is like godhood in that everyone doubts you until they need something.

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// 003trauma

I'm My Father's Daughter

I am my father's daughter in all the ways that cost me.

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// 005identity

A Girl in the Shape of a Monster

they made me monstrous by refusing to see me as anything else.

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// 007identity

Too Much

the problem was people who came to me with small hands and blamed me for what they couldn't hold.

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// 009identity

What They Called Difficult

what they called too much I call everything I am that they did not know how to deserve.

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// 011grief

I Am Half Agony, Half Hope

half agony. half hope. that is the whole of it.

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// 015loneliness

On Crying in Secret

I learned to cry quietly so no one would ask.

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// 018healing

Tender Mercies

sometimes healing looks like eating a good meal and not feeling guilty.

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// 026becoming

This Body is a Myth

this body survived. this body carried grief like water in its palms and didn't spill.

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// 033healing

On Being Believed

sometimes healing starts the moment somebody finally says: I believe you.

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// 041soft thoughts

Prayer for the Difficult Girls

may you be believed. may someone stay past the inconvenient part.

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// 045love

The Poem That Ends It

you are less alone. I was here first. and I left you this.

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// 048becoming

I Remain

I remain. after all of it. I remain.

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// 050girlhood

Girlhood is Like Godhood (Coda)

this is not a sentence. this is a throne.