Today is day one. Oh and this monster has a name. Postpartum period. My period has returned after about 11-12 weeks since giving birth. And I am not breastfeeding at all. While around one-fifth of breastfeeding parents will get their period within six months of giving birth, non-breastfeeding moms get them in the earlier half […]
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Bloated
I am bloated.I am officially,properly bloated.Eating somethingcauses nausea,a belly the sizeof a balloon!Waiting impatientlyfor shark-week to start,as my body –syncs in with the moon?In harmony, symphonyof my hormones –causing tinnitus!I have no issue,none at all with my blood,just the cramps,mood-swings prior,not celebrating anythingbut being grumpy right now,just waitingfor this bloatingto subside and cravingsfor Gorgonzola pizzato […]
Bowl
On viridity hill a bowl sings at the stroke of a qing, a girl rises from her cursed bed, with thoughts of red she can’t shake. A flash of rage, a stab of emotion, viridity singing hill has a new one set in motion. She can’t enter the temple nor pray at the shrine, her […]
Tranquillity
Highest peak of inner tranquillity comes while sleeping under a peepal tree, on a sunny afternoon of fall, after a week of bleeding. I wonder if any man can be as resilient and courageous as you and I, or even as strong as those who define themselves as feminine? All our women past, mother’s grandmother, […]
Moon Child
Modern machines track my cycle, track my dreams while I sleep, sync my body and mind in a human-made device. Yet I wonder when I count, didn’t we all cycle with the moon? Moods as rhythms of tides, swell or soothe – carrying a world inside. Far from the world outside. My thoughts, made from […]
ANTHROPOLOGY OF LOVE 