Moon Water, A Wonderland
I want to bring you to my womb
the moon water lake!
to visit this wonderland
Thick like honey, red like rubies
A half-dead lumpish dragon floating
My cramps, smell of a woman
The taste of my blood!
Flood! Red cloud! A Hurricane called Mafeee
Is salty and bitter like the ocean
Old Chinese call menstrual blood as moon water “月水”, and traditional Chinese herbalists even use the blood as one of the ingredients in their medicines. Menstrual blood, just as ammonic fluid, is a metaphor for women's sufferings and rebirth.
A.B. wrote the following comments on this poem: "The menstrual cycle embodies the soul of woman-ness, the unfathomable depths of her mystery and power...Most people have an innate aversion to blood, their own included. "
Men's innate aversion to women's menstrual blood makes me wonder if this fluid has some profound mystical feminine power, kinda like garlic to vampires? :)