with a lillie mae song splay-footed the straight lick lightning wastes nothing digs deeper in derelict otherness strips me to my old ink honestly this beating brought me home
with elsewhere ohio offers me walking off & away good lord off & away all the time i don’t like being told what to do so i stay with my spite
with my bed i have not given up by laying down to write it makes sense i am whole here with me & three dogs & my wife all snoring while i ask nothing
Darren C. Demaree is the author of fifteen poetry collections, most recently “Burning It Down,” (December 2020, 8th House Publishing). 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.
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