I didn’t need a reason. I just wanted to hold her & be holding her again.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of So Much More (Harbor Editions, 2024), and twenty-three poetry collections. His poems have also appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry, currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.