Lake St. Clair
by Donora Hillard
There is a house. A bed and its implications. A man and woman unaccustomed to mercy.
The old jokes: Stay away. We're bad news.
A kindling in the throat. Then water, metal.
There will be an oath made in blood, in hair. He will lay his knives down on her.
She will talk to him with her whole body.
Donora Hillard is the author of Exhibition (Gold Wake Press, 2008), Romance (Maverick Duck Press, 2008), Bone Cages (BlazeVox [books], 2007), and Parapherna (dancing girl press, 2006). Her fiction, lyric memoir, and poetry have appeared in NANO Fiction, Pebble Lake Review, Segue, and elsewhere. She has been an instructor of writing at Harrisburg Area Community College and King's College, and she presently teaches in southern Pennsylvania. She recently completed a poetry collection entitled "Theology of the Body", a feminist response to the lectures of Pope John Paul II.