amend/amends/amendments #19
it’s fine it’s
a cocked wrist
close the door
the erosion takes
the walls first
thumb and index
of our country
the useless knocking
is palm delinquent
amend/amends/amendments #21
white sink easiest
and most beautiful
mouth to ruin
be singular in
your epic smothering
be a history
worker piled upon
by need erase
all dull fantasies
Darren C. Demaree‘s poems have 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 author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently ‘So Clearly Beautiful‘ (November 2019, Adelaide Books), and the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.