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Poems

First Blood Well The History of Bleeding

Katie Manning

First Blood           
        Just dawn. The warmth
wakes me. I feel wet
and ashamed
but then I know.
I bolt up, look
down at the cloth.
            A dark tide pool
            spreads out
from the center--
a red sun rises
            where life begins.

Well
Only at night now do I drop
my bucket down in the darkness,

watch as the moon rises
silver in the water, swaying

on the surface like a fallen
feather and growing larger

with each tug on the rope.
I raise my eyes and lift

the liquid to the sky.
A shiver thrills my body

though the night is warm,
and I drink. The coolness

tingles my lips. I pour
the rest over my head

and let it rush
down my breasts.

Blood, dirt, and water stream
down my legs, pool

at my feet. I am clean,
almost. I lower my bucket

again and pull the rope
more gently, slowly

savoring the sight
of each glowing ripple.

I grow tired, dripping
red and silver as I go.

The History of Bleeding
“Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him…”
            Matthew 9:20

The first year taught herself to swim
while she drowned
the second denied everything            the third
locked herself in a room and refused
to move
the fourth slept all the time
the fifth
dreamed of a baby wrapped
in white cloth
covered in blood
the sixth traced her name in dirt
a hundred times            the seventh
baked bread daily
the eighth weaved fishing nets
and despised the smell of fish
the ninth and tenth dug a mass grave
for hope            the eleventh
filled it with blood
and the twelfth
stole a piece of God

Working Notes

These poems are part of a larger sequence that focuses on the bleeding woman from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This woman's story is brief in each biblical account. She has no name, no age, no family background—we're only told that she has bled for 12 years, that she gets through a crowd to touch Jesus' cloak, and that she is instantly healed. The Markan account also adds that she spent all she had on doctors, and each account shows Jesus calling her "daughter."

After reading several commentaries, I found that many biblical scholars assume that this is an elderly woman with a hemorrhage of some sort. I chose instead to play on the "daughter" label and make the woman in my poems young, as if she began her period in adolescence and never stopped bleeding—the long-awaited event of womanhood arrives to her excitement in "First Blood," but the bleeding soon turns into the curse of "Well" and the 12 long years of "The History of Bleeding."

No matter her age or reason for bleeding, it's clear that this bleeding woman would've been considered unclean, untouchable, by the Jewish legal code of the day. As I imagined a life for her, it became obvious to me that such a woman could not, or perhaps should not, idly accept a religion that ostracized her. I imagined this character seeking out a divine female, perhaps an unknown goddess or the female side of the Hebrew God, as she first celebrates life-giving blood, then performs an ineffective lunar ritual to stop the blood, and then, as we glimpse in the gospel narratives, obtains healing by her own forceful faith.

About the Author

Katie Manning is a visiting professor for the 2008-2009 school year at Point Loma Nazarene University, where she teaches writing and literature courses. Her poetry and book reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Ancient Paths, Boxcar Poetry Review, Downgo Sun, Kansas City Voices, New Letters, ONTHEBUS, Relief, and others. She recently received the Harriette Yeckel in Honor of Ingrid de Kok Award.


For an updated list of works published in TRIVIA, please see this author's contributor page.       
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.
There are new mountains." (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986)
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        • Anti- Rape
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        • Amaterasu- The Great Eastern Sun Goddess of Peace
        • What is Goddess? Toward an ontology of women giving birth. . .
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        • Dulce's Hands
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      • Issue 7/8: Unabashed Knowing >
        • Bad Manners All That Jazz
        • Hypatia
        • Amerika in 5 Parts
        • Screens: The War at Home
        • Invisible Nature
        • Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory
        • I Saw a Woman Dance
        • The Edible Parts
        • The Happy Hooker Revisisted
        • Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation:the Mother/Virgin Split
        • Notes on contributors (7/8)
      • Issue 6: The Art of the Possible >
        • The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression
        • Wanting a Gun
        • Red Poppies Among the Ruings
        • Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia
        • Noah's Wife
        • Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric
        • Grand Right and Left
        • Notes on Contributors (6)
      • Issue 5: The Resurrection Issue (2/2007) >
        • Waiting for Sappho
        • A Song of Captain Joan
        • Blue Mojo
        • Why Do Something If it Can be Done
        • In Memoriam: Monique Wittig
        • The Loudest Self
        • Clear and Fierce
        • (B) Orderlands' Lullaby
        • Borderlands
        • akaDARKNESS: on Kathy Acker
        • Remembering Barbara Macdonald
        • The Making of Power
        • Octavia Butler: A note on Xenogenesis as a love story
        • The Essential Angel: Tillie Olsen
        • Carol's Hands
        • Notes on Contributors (5)
      • Issue 4: The Wonderful & The Terrible (9/2006) >
        • Cunctipotence
        • Global Lovers
        • Our Lot
        • Doe a Deer
        • Degendering Sex: Undoing Erotic Alienation
        • Seven Stages of Lesbian Desire (What's Truth Got to Do With It?)
        • That Easter
        • Amazon Grace: Read it Aloud
        • Athene, 2002-2005
        • Notes on Contributors (4)
      • Issue 3: Love & Lust (2/2006) >
        • Conversation with Michele Causse
        • Chloto 1978
        • The Woman with the Secret Name
        • She is Still Burning
        • In the Beginning
        • Sanctuary
        • When Sex is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy
        • Arielle
        • Quotidian Love
        • Leverett
        • After Sappho's Fragments Tips for Natural Disasters Said Before
        • A Lesbian is a Memoir
        • Notes on Contributors (3)
      • Issue 2: Memory (12/2005) >
        • The Lost Days of Columbus
        • Agenesias of the Orld World
        • The Power of the Earth Shake/Rousing
        • Return to Earth
        • Forces of Nature
        • The Beauty Shop
        • The Other Shore
        • Notes on Contributors (2)
      • Issue 1: The Body (10/2004) >
        • Lovesick
        • Guerilla Girl Ponders the Situation
        • The Secret Pornographies of Republicans. What's left? Preferably Knot
        • Communing with Bears
        • TRIVIA LIVES: Division Street
        • After Reading: Les Gueilleres
        • Notes on Contributors (1)
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