perverse/saintly: ugly / warsan shire

your daughter is ugly,

She knows loss intimately,

carries whole cities in her belly.

As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.

She was splintered wood and sea water.

She reminded them of the war.

On her fifteenth birthday you taught her

how to tie her hair like rope

and smoke it over…

(Source: hotcombs)

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