Darren C. Demaree
6/25/25
There’s no comfort
in the unassailable truth
that America is Death
come to conduct an exit
through the brittle grass
of humanity’s desire
for an end that resembles
a television show.
It’s weak, uninspired
writing, but it’s the draft
we’ve got so far. Hope,
as always, is in the edits.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently “So Much More”, (Small Harbor Publishing, November 2024). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.
Featured Art:
segment from Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern,
Tamar Horton Harris North, 1877,
One of few well-documented examples of an American mourning quilt.
