Jane Zwart
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Messengers
Bad news we broke—
the alarm boxes’
dollhouse windows,
pendant mallets
chained to red sills—
and good news
we spread, chutney
and compote,
marmite and jam.
Or let me say it
like this: the medium
was the message,
a mouthful
of relish or glass.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. She hosts the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is a co-founder/editor of the new journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.