EMILY AS EUROPE ALL THROUGHOUT THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY by Darren C. Demaree
The melt-core
of history thrives
outside
of the cathedral
of Emily
& yet, does Italy
even exist
if I never give up
the gravity
of her sloping
landscapes?
I’m sure it does,
but do you
think I’m leaving
to find out?
july 28th, 2020Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently “Unfinished Murder Ballads”, (October 2020, Backlash Press). 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.