The Birds Come Back in the Spring
(By Hannah Jenkins)
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Forming a narrative of one woman’s journey to adulthood from the ages of six to twenty-one, the poetry of Hannah Jenkins is an uncompromising look into the grace, torment, and beauty of all things feminine. The goal of the book is
to neither demonize nor glorify any one age of its storyteller but instead to retroactively insert kindness into the unrest of ageing and say to the ever-growing, ever-healing child in all of us: I hear you.
One night, my ancestors tuck me into bed leave a kiss-shaped burn mark,
tell me what I owe my daughters.
One day, they say, she will come to you
to know her worth
and you tell her she is resilient.
Tell her she is smart
and brave
and steadfast
and there is a fire in her belly.
Tell her she is just like her mother.”
