grace (ge) gilbert

TODAY IS OUR ANACHRONISM

beauty just math

Coincidence

a spear of blood

against the cheekbone

where i tried to perfect myself

and failed

hot the word he used

when my vanity exceeded

the averageness

of the bathroom tile

that grime it seems

will unearth me

pigeon poison

Against the sidewalk

where I lose my keys

Unholy patterns

my discount shoes

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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