Eve's first period

Eve's first period


It was more
like an exclamatory mark.
Adam made a little grunt
God wasn't talking to them anyway.
Adam had never
Seen a creature's inner thighs bleed.
The color of God's
Face when he told them to go.
The Color of God
When he told them they were


No longer allowed
In the place he had prepared for them.
God said that
Adam would bruise her head.
That Eve would
Jerk his heel blue. But God never
Said that her body
Would fall out from under her
Waist, from beneath
The place Adam has lived in since
God exiled them.
Adam corked his thumb inside Eve
But nothing Adam
Seemed to do could make the cramps

Adam felt that
Maybe it was somehow all his fault.
That Maybe he
Had pressed into her at a different
Angle or that
He had Fucked her too hard
Even though he
Was just trying to tell her that he
Loved her. Even though
He was just trying to convey to her
That she was really
All he had left in the world now.
When Eve uncrossed
Her body and hoisted her legs
Adam remembers how
She tasted like Clover and mint
In the garden
She yelled out Adam's name
Loud enough for
God to think that perhaps maybe
Eve loved Adam
Just a little more than she loved I
When She came
With Adam she bit her unleaven
She came so hard.
God forced them both to leave
The Garden ad infinitum,
Bartering Fathers blood for hum
Chewing the trees
Bark of human need.