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Jennifer Xia
Mar 31, 2020
Starfish
We spoke of differents gods but prayed to the same,
of holiness and hope.
We are all starfished to something too great to grasp...
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Jennifer Xia
Feb 5, 2020
Free
She has felt the world in its encompassing fullness.
There is no place life has not touched her,
and she has all the more to give for it.
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Jennifer Xia
Jan 16, 2020
When You Close Your Eyes
In the dark, there is courage to speak truth...for even gruesome, unsettling, lonely things want to be heard.
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Jennifer Xia
Jan 13, 2020
All We Know
I remind myself to look harder,
that growing up is not the best in all things...
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Jennifer Xia
Nov 8, 2019
Undone
I begin to unravel myself...and remind myself that survival looks different for everyone.
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Jennifer Xia
Aug 6, 2019
A Love Letter
You must remember that
you will never be too broken to be loved,
and I for one can’t wait for you to meet me.
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Jennifer Xia
Jun 3, 2019
Angel in the Stone
and beauty I will make of myself.
Like an angel in the stone, I am made free.
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Jennifer Xia
May 24, 2019
Lean in
For we are playwrights to our stories, and
we prepare for tragedies.
Lean in, for you were made for so much more
than what you wrote for you
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Jennifer Xia
May 22, 2019
Better for it
Show me what you are made of,
I cried out to the world,
for we were made the same,
both light and dark, and better for it.
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Jennifer Xia
May 11, 2019
When You Think of Your Mother
When you think of your mother,
you look at yourself.
The way you cook your eggs and
notice wildflowers by the roadside...
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 22, 2019
When the Party's Over
And in the dim, milky light of evening,
I looked to see who still remained, and
broke a smile of moonlight when I saw that it was me.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 20, 2019
The End of the World is Less Dramatic
You never thought the end of the world would look like this,
but you always knew that it would begin again with you.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 19, 2019
Limbo
We are in limbo, and we say nothing, as if a word of breath
could break this moment, scared of what comes after
when we admit that we can’t
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 9, 2019
Woman is Art
If you can touch her without her marble skin,
when she is broken and edged,
you have properly held a woman.
Woman is art.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 6, 2019
Full of Meaning
3 a.m. creeps in, heavy and brooding,
full of feeling with no room to hold it.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 5, 2019
A Hard Pill
Bubbly at the tongue, burning at the back of the throat,
for the good times were hard to swallow
when we realized that they were over.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 4, 2019
Back to Nature
When you remember that you are made of darkness,
go back to nature and all the rest you are made of.
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Jennifer Xia
Apr 3, 2019
What the bed Says to the Girl it Holds
I’ve heard your heart hum and mellow
as your breath grows louder with peace,
and I hold you until heaven reaches you.
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Jennifer Xia
Mar 15, 2019
To be
to be happiness when you are happy,
to feel as if I were you, for what you love and lose
is close to me
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Jennifer Xia
Mar 10, 2019
Forget me not
Do not accept the haunting of what could have been by holding your breath. Exhale.
Let her go, but forget me not, for I am still here.
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Jennifer Xia
Feb 23, 2019
The Heartbreak That Never Happened
He reads people like storybooks, hungry and desperate,
a wolf preying on itself, learning that nature and nurture
mean more than a few lett
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Jennifer Xia
Feb 18, 2019
The Sea and Me
On nights like these, when she was the scenery,
she felt afraid.
She didn’t know how to be more than a sitting body.
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Jennifer Xia
Feb 17, 2019
Hold on to the Grief
But we soon learn that the grief we toss,
comes back to us...
So we decide to hurt,
to hold onto grief to make room for something else.
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Jennifer Xia
Feb 3, 2019
Softly
So I tuck myself into my body with soft hands,
ingraining a new way to hold myself
for the person I am becoming.
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Jennifer Xia
Jan 20, 2019
Daylight Savings
Whispering secrets into our pillow cases and giving pats on the back,
the ways childhood taught us to hope.
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Jennifer Xia
Dec 28, 2018
Cost
I remember him looking at me, not with his eyes,
but with his hands...weighing how little he could hold onto
without losing me.
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Jennifer Xia
Dec 7, 2018
Into the Clearing
but by the fire we ignited with fear,
we grew to kindle with kindness.
and the smoke that arose lead us to dawn.
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Jennifer Xia
Dec 1, 2018
I'll See You in the Morning
And i see walls fall in love, finding a place
where they can touch and not fall from it.
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Jennifer Xia
Nov 15, 2018
Find me in the Willows
uncover me from the haze
and you will find my heart in the willows
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