Emily as We Funeral
by Darren C. Demaree

      
    If you know
    what is below
    the black silk
    
    is black lace
    & you know
    you know
    
    you know
    the hand slides
    forward, in
    
    then what hymn
    & what lunch
    is ever sad?
    
    
    
Packingtown Review – Vol. 25, Spring 2026

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.

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