Sherine Elise Gilmour | static | Poets Resist

Sherine Elise Gilmour graduated with an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming from The American Journal of Poetry, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Green Mountains Review, Many Mountains Moving, Oxford University Press, River Styx, So To Speak, Tinderbox, and other publications.

Also by Sherine Elise Gilmour: Mary Magdalene as a Child Ancestry Kielbasa Stands for Melancholy

Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry: Falling

Poets Resist
Edited by Logan February
July 31, 2019

Sherine Elise Gilmour

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it’s been a year of commuting and I have yet to hear a song by a female vocalist instead two men discuss whether a teacher in Brewster having sex with a student is abuse on the next station a human rights researcher the next a segment about white supremacy I do not know how to manage pushing these buttons and trying to steer at the same time I turn off the radio and cannot stand the silence the way panic rises in my chest the fear I will have to listen to my own thoughts what I need is someone else’s voice just the right voice to keep me mildly distracted from the awful things I know about already it’s an early morning commute thick mist ambles down from the mountains if it moved a little faster the mist could slip through the cracks the door seams and grates and vents if I opened my window it could pour into the car like water filling a sink and I would be gulping mist it could fill up my ears and enter my head wouldn’t that be nice?