Outside, the terrain glistens with the lieof snow, the moon’s neon vacancy.A hare peeks from behind the white,its softness startling as a mirror.I wrestle my limbs to stillness,soothe the pink cheek of fever.I mark a line through each day I do notdo violence to myself with my tongue.A practice I have yet to master.There are so few lines. So much white.
Dysmorphia (Winter)
Donna Vorreyer
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Donna Vorreyer is the author of three full-length poetry collections: To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Harpur Palate, Baltimore Review, and Booth. Her visual art has been featured in North American Review, Waxwing, About Place, Pithead Chapel, and other journals. Donna currently lives and creates in the western suburbs of Chicago and runs the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.
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