Misanthrope
Donna Dallas
A clock ticks
somewhere in this old
rickety house
a ceiling fan turns
with rusty clanks
from age and use
the air moves as if a specter
swims the hallways
alone
in the box of a room
trapped
I become the mirror
the output of the house
glimpse the bones of myself
and come to find
I am the ghost
Donna
Dallas studied creative writing and philosophy at NYU’s Gallatin School and was lucky
enough to
write under William Packard, founder of the New York Quarterly. She has appeared in a plethora
of journals,
most recently Horror Sleaze Trash, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Opiate, Beatnik Cowboy
and Burning House Press. She is the author of Death Sisters, her first novel
published by Alien Buddha Press. Donna
serves on the editorial team of Red Fez and New York Quarterly.
donnaanndallas@gmail.com
@DonnaDallas15
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