Poetry by Nwenna Kai

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Dear Anne,

- for Anne Sexton

the girl who wanted to be a boy…

the daughter of the all-season drunk
who chewed boys and fingered gum
loved women and stayed young

when i think of you,

i think caves, blizzards, Boston, self in 1958, chaos, daddy is drunk again.
i see that women are born twice.

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Nwenna Kai is a writer and college instructor who lives in Philadelphia with her family. She has been published in Obsidian, Heart and Soul Magazine, and Def Jam Poetry Anthology. She loves hot yoga, ginger tea, naps, metaphysics, and plants, not in that order.  

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