On the menstrual cycle phases

Alternate Title: The Whole Period.

A play in two acts

Act One: Follicular

Scene One: Menstruation, The Period.

Water moving like

air

moving like

bands of fabric

cascading across

this rock

hardened heart

Scene Two: Proliferation

melting like

ice left six feet

away from the

flames.

Steam, and

smoke and

tides rising like

Interlude: Ovulation

everything could be contained

inside this deepest cavern

Act Two: Luteal

Scene One: Secretion

a chamber

inside

with a

secret

endless

tide,

changing,

building.

Slow down

and wait. Rest again

and again.