Sample

When you said no,

             I went for your dresser,

opened the top drawer,

             broke the paper seals

on the two sterile cups,

             and wiped my dirty

thumbs inside.

             Because our stubborn love

won’t die, I have to kill it,

            will it dead. Or so

I thought until I passed

             a cycle on my own.

You’ve no idea

             what’s grown

inside me

             since I bled.