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Subject: MENSTRUATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLOOD, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: She comes to the door
Last Line: Red threads. %the same red
Subject(s): Blood; Menstruation; Sex


CYCLE OF THE MONTH (MENSTRUATION), by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within her someone prepares a banquet
Last Line: Revolves around -- there lies within her an %endless calendar
Subject(s): Menstruation


MENSTRUATION, by BETH HOUSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though I kneel at the likp of vesuvius I am not
Last Line: Blood fire altar ego echo exploding metamorphosis, like %a prisoner cramped at the end of a long sen
Subject(s): Menstruation


MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was thinking of a son
Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion; Theology


MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was thinking of a son
Last Line: I would have possessed you before all women, %calling your name, %calling you mine
Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion


ODE ON PERIODS, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The penis is something that fits into the vagina
Subject(s): Menstruation


SPREAD, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This blood is the same color as the jam I used to eat every morning made of
Last Line: Handle that's a string you pull right down out of yourself
Subject(s): Blood; Girls; Menstruation; Women


THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES / OR CLIMBING BACK ON THE ROOF, by HETTIE JONES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was forty-five
Subject(s): Middle Age; Menstruation


THEN COMES THE GIRL WITH THE TAMPON IN HER, by DAISY FRIED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lights out, shades down, boys out
Last Line: Us, what we would always have to be
Subject(s): Girls; Menstruation