Water, Hold Me
creative contribution
Miriam Saperstein
extract
I show up uncommanded
to the steps of the Lower East Side mikve fantasizing about bleeding
into the pool clouding the living waters with my eggsome feet and menstrual rot all the cricks in my neck gossiping
until my sex leaks, apparent to the women gathered behind glass doors
go for the blood, the semen, the veins go for the babies you failed to create!
press a button and the mikve lady checks her back for errant hairs the Knife may now Bride […]
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