Menarche

Let's workshop this ekphrastic poem!

For an updated version, see: https://maistvanjr.substack.com/p/menarche-round-2

*This narrative poem is unpublished (and still warm from the oven). It is loosely inspired by—and, I feel, both amplifies and expands the meaning of—one of my favorite films: Eve’s Bayou.

Photo of Meagan Good, playing the Rosaline-esque character Cisely, in the 1997 film Eve’s Bayou