{"id":5734,"date":"2025-12-01T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=5734"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:07:54","slug":"ghazal-gill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/fall-2025-digital-lit\/ghazal-gill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghazal for New York City \u2014 Erika Gill \u2014 Fall 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Euforia Abstracta en la ciudad Invisible by Vivian Calderon Bogoslavsky<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ghazal for New York City<\/h1>\n

Erika Gill<\/p>\n

After Adrienne Rich<\/em><\/p>\n

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I haven\u2019t finished mourning the future I believed we were constructing
\n<\/span>when your ghost follows me through the city streets and subway lines<\/span><\/p>\n

upward stare at the pinkish paint flaking from the metal beam overhead
\n<\/span>the overgrown verdancy of the vines along the station wall fills me<\/span><\/p>\n

in Central Park I melt, slowly by stages, into a frozen strawberry lemonade
\n<\/span>outside of Strawberry fields a sudden void scoops my soul into concavity<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the black ant crawling in the white hibiscus flower in Prospect Park
\n<\/span>I am the fat rat crawling in the cement cracks in the Park Slope station<\/span><\/p>\n

smoking in the West Village I spot the crepe place I traveled to 10 years ago
\n<\/span>right across the street from the bar where a man said a slur to my face<\/span><\/p>\n

Have I become lost willingly in the concrete jungle where dreams are made?
\n<\/span>Empty myself, my last cigarette, my patience as the world’s best wing man<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about being feminine, it\u2019s about being a dirty little bitch,\u201d they say
\n<\/span>the chord it strikes resonates through the following weeks, wards you away<\/span><\/p>\n

I claim this city for myself, and exorcise you from all that remains sordid
\n<\/span>in my heart full of dirt, sewage, garbage and exhaust, but most of all, hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Erika Gill<\/b> (they\/them) lives on unceded Ts\u00e9stho\u2019e (Cheyenne), O\u010dh\u00e9thi \u0160ak\u00f3wi\u014b, hinono\u2019eino\u2019 biito\u2019owu\u2019 (Arapaho), and N\u00fau-agha-t\u0289v\u0289-p\u0289\u0331 (Ute) land in Denver. Erika is Editor in Chief of <\/span>Alternative Milk Magazine<\/span><\/i>. Their poetry appears in <\/span>Rigorous<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>MORIA<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>beestung<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> and others. Their debut collection of poetry,<\/span> Lone Yellow Flower<\/span><\/i>, is available now from Querencia Press. Socials: @invariablyso Website:<\/span> erikagill.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Vivian Calder\u00f3n Bogoslavsky<\/b> is a Colombia native. She holds a bachelors in anthropology with a minor in history and a postgraduate degree in Journalism from Universidad of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. She has studied art for over 13 years with a well known Argentinian art master, as well as studies in Florence, Italy, and Fine Arts & Design in USA. She was in Madrid Spain for one year painting and having art exhibitions and today she is in Colombia exploring her art. Vivian has shown her work in both individual and collective shows in Colombia, the United States, and Spain. She has been published in various books, magazines, and webpages, and has received multiple awards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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