My period refused to let me rush: rush from answering emails
to packing to checking in for my flight to vacuuming – all the rushing I am
inclined to doing when my more sedentary and also patient partner is out of
town or at work. I woke up bleeding, and my long list of potential to dos
before my Tallahassee 5pm departure slipped through my fingers – words like
blood that are no longer needed.
