sketches menses to samuel barber's adagio

and this is no chore
          this smoothing of the
sheets
    and this is no act
this serious handwork
                   and this is no secret
this labourlove
                         this the way the
ripples bend to
     following
    from
  flowing
and this is no mistake
      this blood within the crack
and this is no unknowing
       this written in stone cycle
and this is not at all
                        all foregone
      this red
and
       this penciltip cracked like a picked
quick
        this novel and unworkable the
lead tipping
 and this tool spl-
          itting
and this sliver
   and this shallow soft flat place bed
and this muskiron this to the woo origins led
   and this baroqueing ooze so antagonistic to bed
this hand
 this forefinger-thumb blend
soft hatching
             and this no tumultuous occasions but this
bleed
       shed
and this sweet white comfort flat belly
        this no credible home but empty womb-fleece
dead
          this bevelled lip finger in nippleshard lending this
sway
        this hornday pillow cramp stain
and this no ordinary unordinated day
  and this harrowing sorrow this nochildway
and this lack
  and this more than made up for
in someway
quick again
          stay
           stay the flow from out the door more
stay