The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman
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The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman

Poems

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  2. English
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The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman

Poems

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The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman imagines a life for an interesting, unnamed biblical character: the bleeding woman who touches Jesus in three of the gospel accounts. The first half of this poetry collection is biblical/historical fiction; the second half, after the healing touch, moves into the realm of speculative fantasy (because faith is a strange, strange thing).

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Year
2013
ISBN
9781498270588
Subtopic
Poetry
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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.

Seven Weeks Later

The tears won’t flow
from my face the way blood
flows from my womb.
The current continues
daily down my legs
though I have begged
the God whose temple
I may not enter to sew
me closed. Once,
they say, he turned
an Egyptian sea to blo...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword for Point Loma Press Series
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Notes
  7. About the Author