Placenta Honey

A black crimson 

oozes out of me 


a honey we are drunk 

on these Holy 


Waters turned to 

mead by swarms  


of women swimming 

in my bodily 


fluids the midwife presses 

the placenta into 


my mouth stains 

blood with the 


moans of a music 

not heard at all 

Sasha Siem is a musician, writer and mother living in the UK. She studied music at Cambridge and has a PhD in Music and Poetry from Harvard University. Her work - for which she has been awarded a British Composer Award - has been performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House, and Aldeburgh Music among others. She has released 5 alt-pop albums to critical acclaim and has recently authored The Way of Light on Water, which is her first poetry collection.