A Poetry Syllabus
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Donna Vorreyer

lives and writes in the suburbs of Chicago where she teaches middle schoolers that words matter and always roots for the White Sox, never the Cubs.

Her poetry has appeared in many journals including Cider Press Review, New York Quarterly, Boxcar Poetry Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, and After Hours: A Chicago Journal of Writing and Art.


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The Real History of the Caves of Lascaux

Clouds formed the shape of
a mammoth and the man, who
had no language to describe it,
scrawled a crude picture in
the dirt and pointed at the sky.

The dust erased his marks
as eager feet approached,
the dark-eyed girl he wanted
so to please arriving to see
only a mess of swirled earth.

That night around the fire, his
fingers stained with the refuse
of berries, he leaped to his feet
and made his first marks on
the permanent stone.



 
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