Author name: Gillian Chapman

petersburg words by Gillian Chapmanillustration by Sharada Mujumdar here it comes—   the edges of my frail mind   falter and fade. dreadful closet walls,  dirty and mangled, sick yellow paper, turn, twist, tighten,   swallow whole.   through the dingy apartment esophagus   i am thrown into the stomach of the street  suffocating summer sweat   like swirling bile. in the […]