The Unlikely, Somehow Inevitable

my breasts ache, my nipples hard beneath

the sheet, and my period tracker tells me

to pee on a stick and test for pregnancy.

want lives in my womb,

between the lining of my uterus, and

the unlikely and yet somehow inevitable,

like an end to the curse,

like a stable for the virgin birth.

every month bleeding like weeping

for someone who’s story i know not,

for the…