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by grace (ge) gilbert

​waterfall   Waterfall  nothing
can harm me at all
-Jimi Hendrix
leasing my mind
 
i mean  green
as eden
 
I’ve got the law of averages
and  in my eyes
 
some window  s
just shouldn’t
 
be there
 
everyone
I mean  e veryone
 
looks like my ex
 
white guy
 
Volvo driver
 
he stops my heart
averagely
 
in Wilkinsburg
 
where i get catcalled
by a guy praying
on his front stoop I laugh
because    these things
 
don’t break
 
me they jus t  like
Make me tweet
 
about my gender
 
then Watching
the Bachelor the leaves are always
falling like
something else
 
is happening
 
I brag
 to my co -workers about how i’ d never chase
a man like that and it’s like ok but what
has been taking chunk s
from yr heels
 
for decdes
 
I guess when I walk
all middle-d this way I rea ch
for my grandmother that
Ohioan hardwater farm
milieu once she said Girl s have you ever
met  a real life
 
                        F*****t before ?
 
i mean a therapist tol d me to imagine
someone  as a child so u
can love them again
 
so I pictured her chubby
Hicktown ankles running across the wide -
Screen low def plains and got stuck
 
Trying to picture
the soil
 
I mean something so  much Richer than dirt
 
            it is nothing
 
 
 
 you could call a person

grace (ge) gilbert is a poet and lyric essayist among other things. their poetry chapbook, 'NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK' is forthcoming with Antenna Books in 2022. their essay collection 'the closeted diaries' is forthcoming with Porkbelly Press (2022). their work has been featured in The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, the Offing, ANMLY, Pidgeonholes, Hobart, Gargoyle, the Penn Review, the minnesota review, and elsewhere. now an MFA @Pitt, grace also loves cheese, macarons, their partner Boen Wang, and their cat Honey.
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