This time in the public bathroom at the county fair. Our father sits outside worrying his knuckles in his blue denim overalls. She has locked herself in a toilet stall so we see only her white Walmart tennis shoes, the clouds of soiled and crumpled paper. The smell is a stalwart thing. A stranger stands […]
LaDonna Witmer
In previous lives, LaDonna Witmer was a newspaper journalist, advertising copywriter, brand voice expert, editorial director, public speaker, and poetry slammer. She now tends her dogs, dahlias, and daughter on a quinta in rural Portugal while writing essays, poems, and memoir. LaDonna is a Hedgebrook and Disquiet alum who’s written three chapbooks and had poetry published in SWWIM, Tupelo Quarterly, and the poetry anthology Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion. She is writing a memoir about fundamentalism and fire.