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Emily as What the Wave Carries

Our small mouths
have never mattered.
The drowned

drown regardless
of the bruising
or the songs

about the bruising.
We are on the beach
together now.
​
That is what we asked
for, right?
Right. Right?

Emily as a Poem Written From Things Emily as Said as She Left the Kitchen This Morning

Did you call

the knocking

loop coiling

our ash trees

& what, what

about the egress?

I love

this syrup

& what, what?

Remember

to call

the children

this syrup.

I love

this syrup.

It’s around all

of our trees.

Picture

Darren C. Demaree

Darren C. Demaree is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Bombing the Thinker, which was published by Backlash Press.  He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry.  He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

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