Carolyn Gevinski

This Is

This is
a given—
But now, am I wrong?
We are dust, I am eczema. You have not called. Am I selfish? Am I Lucifer?
Am I wrong for wanting you to inhabit my body?
Please someone, inhabit my body. Become me, so I am not.

Carolyn Gevinski’s poems have been published in Lavender Review and are forthcoming in Across the Margin, Prosetrics, ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑ, and Scapegoat Review. Her journalism can be found in El País, GLAMOUR, Al Jazeera, and Out Magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where she currently works on their postgraduate investigative team.