Marylisa W. DeDomenicis


Period, 40


Sometimes. When the clots are thick
and early, deeply red
instead of thin and pinkish –
and I flinch
as though some hand of god
has sunk its fingers deep
to pry my uterus from my pelvis –

meat that won’t be pulled
from my pubic bone
just yet – an earth that could, if given
seed, still flourish, a ripe sea –

I follow what is lost
down into water with my eye
to study what exactly
might have been begun to end
abruptly – and I am glad
I cannot trace the shape of any
being dropped beneath me.
I could not bear gaining
more to lose.



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