Donna Vorreyer

To Do List

Let the grip of worry loosen.

Enjoy bread, milk, his embrace.

My morning walk.

A deer grazing in the clearing.

Release my debts to the air.

Renounce my litany of failures.

Pivot toward the sun.

Do my best to rise.

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 monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is a co-founder/editor of the new journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.