Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 81

Supergirl
Courtney Putnam
had no sex education like I did —
no old textbook diagrams of fallopian tubes,
or tampons dipped in blue-tinted water
to see them puff and float like sacred specimens.
Instead, Argo drifted in space, detached
from its Kryptonian world, a chunk of planet
to fend for itself, just as Supergirl did,
ripening without notice, alone to witness
her first drops of woman blood
staining her muslin dress, wondering
if this was the end, a disease just as cruel
as Krypton’s demise . . .
. . . but then she saw a similar stain
on her girlfriend’s dress, and then another
and another, and she knew that something
miraculous had happened — like Krypton,
she had the power to bleed and survive.
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