She sits atop a hill,
the brown stone Goddess
Bleeding.
She squats and part her legs,
the yoni splattered with red,
Bleeding.
No cloth, no pad, no shame
a wild wild woman untamed,
Bleeding.
Her vermilion melts, and drops and paints,
her forehead to her yoni,
Bleeding.
The blood feeds earth
melting the hearth,
Bleeding.
The red of life,
preserved in a menstrual cup
Bleeding.
From the kumkum to bindi to choori to saree,
she a woman deliquescing in red,
Bleeding.