Literature
third-party amenorrhoea
i.
A circle of women sit, crossing their legs,
weaving their wrists, their ankles in and out
of identifiable strangers, all
staring at the centre, assuming some
preconceived dawn, some feminized
rebellion.
None of them speak; they shift weight,
heavy set, saturated gazes onto one another,
connected by invisible sorrows, mounted
through a unified mutiny.
ii.
Sometimes desperation coagulates into
a mass of furred emotion, sprouting
slime glands, antennae, and a sixth
sense of congenital failure.
There are mistakes that grip you by
the knees, drag you down, open
you up and leave you with nothing
but your own warped self-lo