grace (ge) gilbert

TODAY IS AN OFFICE OF BUSINESS

i’ve only bought weed

from ppl who wanted me

all pressed out

beneath them

hem of a woman

the terror

of my spending

i don’t know how

to get things

any other way

wine

humming

it’s way into

the comforter

the stain a deep

new life

i think: when the briefcase

opens

i could spill out

a messy document

my breasts little clasps

my heart a pie chart

grace (ge) gilbert is a poet, essayist, and educator currently living in Pittsburgh. they are the author of two forthcoming chapbooks, the closeted diaries (Porkbelly Press, 2022) and NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK (Antenna Books, 2022). winner of the 2021 New Delta Review Experimental Non-fiction Contest, grace is currently working on a hybrid book about their grandmother's murder. find more of grace's work in The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, ANMLY, Pidgeonholes, the Offing, TYPO, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere.

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