Everything Is Calm Now

 

Donna Dallas

 

You’re slipping 

once mad prophet 

twice rabbit hole friend 

as of late 

you stupor through unending 

YouTube videos

that claim the prophet is yet to be 

 

And I 

your prior salvation 

empty of the Eucharist 

sloppy as always 

spill the wine 

you stare

as if I have become your colossus 

better the one you know than not

 

The calm terrifying 

when your eyes are open 

and fixated 

on wine spilling off the table 

onto our dirty floor 

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        Donna Dallas has appeared in a plethora of journals, most recently Beatnik Cowboy, Horror Sleaze Trash and Fevers of the Mind.  She is the author of Death Sisters, her legacy novel, published by Alien Buddha Press. Her first chapbook, Smoke and Mirrors, launched in 2022 with New York Quarterly. Her second chapbook, Megalodon, launched in 2023 with The Opiate. Donna has served on the editorial team of Red Fez and NYQ.