by Darren C. Demaree
Emily as We Shorten The Story
Her body is a cliff.
You have to believe
life is mostly falling.
Emily as Some Sort of Ruin
I limp with Emily.
I call it dancing.
Call it dancing for me.
Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of twenty-five poetry collections, most recently ‘Got There: Poems on Vanishing’ (April 2026, April Gloaming Publishing). He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.