This poem draws upon grief as experienced through early pregnancy loss and the ways in which the intertwining of the female role, the female body and reproduction complicates the experience of pregnancy, miscarriage, and infertility for women and people with uteruses. The shape of the verses simultaneously represents both drops of blood and tears, reflecting the physical and emotional toll of these experiences and how heavily they are interlinked.

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Medically and socially, the importance of motherhood as central to womanhood has powerful, potentially harmful implications, even for those who wish to uphold these roles themselves.