Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

i'm stunned. this was just incredibly disturbing, messed up and straight up vulgar and i found the beauty in it. Warsan is a literary genius idc

“I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together.”

Bland poetry is sometimes the best poetry. No hidden meanings, no double entendres, just raw, in-your-face poetry. This collection is one I cherish.

I connected with a few of the poems.