DONNA VORREYER
NIN: Show 20, Age 55
Thousands of feet pounding this field the thrum
in the blood a mystery all pieces of one
keening being given in to a power that simultaneously
pulses comfort and rage I wedge closer
to the rail each bone in distress but holding adrenaline
rising like a loaf in a covered bowl a hedgerow
of security cross-armed but nodding to the rude beat
because they too are wounded and human
Thousands of feet pounding this field the thrum
in the blood a mystery all pieces of one
keening being given in to a power that simultaneously
pulses comfort and rage I wedge closer
to the rail each bone in distress but holding adrenaline
rising like a loaf in a covered bowl a hedgerow
of security cross-armed but nodding to the rude beat
because they too are wounded and human
Donna Vorreyer is the author of 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).