poetry is how i turn ugliness into art. dark into light. fear into will. i didn t learn this over the years as i learned math or history. i learned it all at once. in a swift kick to my heart. it s a gold mining town. perched on the side of a dead volcano 17,000 feet up in the perpetual snow of the andes. they tell me my town is harsh. hazardous. the highest human habitation in the world. i don t know. my father named me after a famous warrior, xena. he had seen her on tv but since he could neither read or write he didn t know her name started with an x. he said that like her i would
in a swift kick to my heart. it s a gold mining town. perched on the side of a dead volcano 17,000 feet up in the perpetual snow of the andes. they tell me my town is harsh. hazardous. the highest human habitation in the world. i don t know. my father named me after a famous warrior, zena.
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it s a gold mining town. perched on the side of a dead volcano 17,000 feet up in the perpetual snow of the andes. they tell me my town is harsh. hazardous. the highest human habitation in the world. i don t know, my father named me after a famous warrior, zena.