Some of my favorites poems:

1) “Is being someone’s daughter sure punishment?

Will I spend my whole life begging for permission to breathe?”

2) “Home for you was always hard.
Someone was always raising their voice,
The other was always wanting out.

So much running under one roof.
So much longing in a single space.”

3) “Here,

To be woman is to care hard,
Care until it kills you.”

4) “You’re as much magic as you were yesterday,
Even if today is filled with shaking the misery,
Dancing off the tired,
Deeply wanting an out.

You’re as much magic as you were yesterday.”

5) “Excuse me while I shake the table
And make myself the proudest.
Maybe I am not always the daughter you clap for
But I am mine for the choosing, and in that is a peace.”