very often we are ghostly before we become ghost i am that white already but i only drop my arms when i sleep i toss carrots into the yard all the time i am far too busy turning the sound of food hitting the grass in my backyard into a metaphor to die right now hell i haven’t even given the new fawn a name yet more accurately i haven’t found the agency to name a child that isn’t mine
Darren C. Demaree is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Lady, You Shot Me, which was published by 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.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.