New Poetry by Donna Dallas

Demons Everywhere 

One was just breathing into my hair

as I stood in the mirror

listening to its panting breath

Outside they squat in droves 

wait for a slip

blood red eyes like slits 

peer in my window

I’m weak

any day I will falter

as they cackle endlessly

push the bottle across the table 

so it sits beckoning

I always preferred bourbon 

I grip the cap 

as if I could choke it

push it back into air

silence 

Another night passes

though I’m no better than yesterday 

neither are they

- © Donna Dallas 2023

Donna's work has recently appeared in The Opiate, Beatnik Cowboy, Tribes, 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. Donna serves on the editorial team of NYQ.