Summary

Kaur’s final section of poetry is called “blooming,” and begins with Kaur addressing her reader, telling her reader that “the universe… crafted you to offer the world / something different from everyone else” (197). Kaur then writes a poem speculating about what happened “when the first woman spread her legs / to let the first man in,” concluding that the woman “drew magic” (199). Kaur then vows she “will no longer / compare [her] path to others,” and decides she is “the product of all [her] ancestors… deciding these stories need to be told” (200-201). Kaur then remembers how when she was born, her mother told her “there is god in you / can you feel her dancing” (203).

Kaur’s begins to address the question of death, as she says she is “from the earth,” and therefore this world “never belonged to me anyway” for she has “always” belonged...