NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #201
Without immensity, with
the size of a forenoon day
I can be the white edges,
but then I can only grow
to interfere with the scene
of art. I want to be the art.
That’s why I’ve covered
my body with pictures,
because before all of those
little, driving ink pens found
me supple enough to be
taken, nobody looked at me.
NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #200
I want to lake
the tree, swim
the trunk
after suspending
myself briefly
above the foliage.
I want to be taken
in. I want the sun
to nourish me.
Darren is a dangerous dreamer, concocting love poems to his home state, and pastorals to his true love.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of five poetry collections, most recently “The Nineteen Steps Between Us” (2016, After the Pause). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children
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