Grace Gilbert
Today is a Definition Gap

sorry, sorry, sorry

my whole life
too strange
too novel

It can detonate
the people

The arsehat
of a Baptist elder
who put his hand
in my lap would tell me
this is my sin
not his

the stolen nature
means it is
at the very least I
nteresting
What is it anyway

Love
that sure body

that sure body
where all my tender
figures merge

*

today is today tomorrow and the next day

i fall prey
2 the open sores

of men

the way
they remove me

the floor
in my body

so padded with silt

so distinguished.