Gold dresses & red capes, hair as dark as a shadow mounting the distance, Emily is two women, but really is the one set of knuckles curling tightly around a gift I refuse to hide. She is violent in her expression & that part isn’t mythology, that part vibrates past colors & past bodies & just when I think she is mine there is a new grip to prove that I am hers & I am hers the same way the moon belongs to the wolf that clears the landscape with a stance that looks to crowd out the forest from simple night.
Darren C. Demaree's poetry has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. Darren is the author of twenty-two poetry collections, most recently blue and blue and blue (July 2024, Fernwood Press) and serves as the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry.