Donna Vorreyer
Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poetry and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.
Omens from Patterns Created by Oil Dropped in Water
British Museum # 22447 Clay tablet; Old Babylonian. Omens from divination by oil and water, 1900BC-1600BC Oil and water do not mix. This is a scientific fact, but also an adage used to illustrate that two things without the right chemistry will never truly bond, one completely connected to the other. Consider a vinaigrette. The […]
The Astronomy of Losing
for my brothers Three moons revolving around dying planets, we spun unmoored at the same rate, each showing only one face in our synchronous rotations, hiding our dark sides from view. We locked into the tides of each labored breath, each confused diatribe, were illuminated not by the sun but by hospital fluorescents and dim […]