The Time I Failed
to get
my period
I panicked
and went
to see
a friend
of a friend
who had
ways to get
medicine
designed
to let
the uterus
open up
and drop
its fruit.
Thank you
for taking
root, Apple
of my eye.
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Katerina Stoykova is the author of several poetry books in English and Bulgarian, most recently The Porcupine of Mind (Broadstone Books, 2012, in English) and How God Punishes (ICU, 2014, in Bulgarian), which won the Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Prize. She is the editor of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing, 2014), for which she also translated the works of 29 of the 32 included authors. She hosts Accents – a radio show for literature, art and culture on WRFL in Lexington, Kentucky. In January 2010, Katerina launched the independent literary press Accents Publishing.
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