CHANGING MY PRONOUNS @ HOME DEPOT LOL
by grace (ge) gilbert
Summer Poetry Contest Winner
“CHANGING MY PRONOUNS @ HOME DEPOT LOL” is whole-hearted in its exploration and range. In just 20 spiraling lines, the poet cleverly twists and gnaws at the perspective on our collective themness, assimilating perfectly into a mundane world—here, a hardware store—full of neighbors, each of them mining their own kaleidoscopic fluidity and solipsism. Lines like “I want a little tool belt to signify / the intent of the Phallic” and “Are we talking abt hands you / know the truth / haven’t / u fashioned Them / ?” send this poem flying like knuckle dusters into the jaw of some kind of crinkling stardust. — Matt Mitchell
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. find more work at gracegegilbert.com.
