person Donna Vorreyer, two poems
Donna Vorreyer is the author of the collections Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016) and A House of Many Windows (Sundress, 2013) as well as eight chapbooks, most recently The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017).
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Crossing State Lines
Insects collect on the windshield, ping as they explode,
death masks splatted in random rows.
Heat lightning blurs the humid air, the glare
of headlights fluttering with their ghosts.
I should sing them all a requiem, herky-jerk
a hallelujah, but I have miles to go. You know.
My own issues. Fever daughter, crater dweller,
creature of the great black hole.
I struggle to name the ache that godzillas its way
through the bright cities of my bones.
Voice tongue-stuck and swollen. Joints locked
in a genuflect. Arriving, I lean against a fender
and stretch, my shadow cast ahead of me
on unfamiliar streets, elongated, erasing the bulk
of…
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