WHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #34
The small, repeatable
actions
that go wrong one time
always snatch
your throat
& divide it up
into a tributary
of failure
that dumps fire
into more fire, spreads
until the harbor
becomes a deep hell.
WHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #35
Throw the remaining eggs
at the ashes of the silo. Eat
what cooks there. Enjoy
the plenty that is nothing
left to burn. If the house
goes up too, your fingers
will substitute for the silver
that can never be saved.
WHAT THE METAL HOLDS TOO LONG IS CONSUMED BY FIRE #36
Wear the crisping.
Wear it into town.
Pick a bar, rural
superhero, the silo
smoking on your chest
is worth a month
of free Wild Turkey.
Darren C. Demaree
“Darren is a dangerous dreamer, concocting love poems to his home state, and pastorals to his true love. But there’s always something more beneath the surface: sex and violence, villainy, mutilation, uneasy redemption and troubled ecstasy. These poems are pins pressed deep in the disfigured heart of America. They work a dark magic on the reader — they’re unsettling in necessary ways.” Christopher Michel
My poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review.
I am the author of “As We Refer To Our Bodies” (2013, 8th House), “Temporary Champions” (2014, Main Street Rag), “The Pony Governor” (2015, After the Pause Press), and “Not For Art Nor Prayer” (2015, 8th House). I am the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.
I am currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with my wife and children.
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