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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Darren C. Demaree is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently So Clearly Beautiful, (November 2019, Adelaide Books). 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.
Also by Darren C. Demaree:
So Clearly Beautiful
Emily As Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire
A Fire Without Light
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Emily As Written By Carlos Drummond de Andrade
red milk
Poets Resist
Edited by Christine Taylor
January 9, 2020
Edited by Christine Taylor
January 9, 2020
Before the War Begins the War Begins
the nitrogen braids the burials / before the bottles of wine / can be placed upon the windowsill / america prefers to use / as target practice / & since peace is a hero / that almost exists / the glass will chase the glass / the rubble will chase the rubble / & only the blood will rise / high enough to be seen / by the meetings that inhabit the meetings / that have replaced the people / that replaced the people / that abstract the people / into numbers / & since winning / is losing / is winning / is as constantly almost as a hero / that emerges from death / as if that is the same thing / as living / as if any idea of war / could refuse to drip before the tide / takes our plasma as belonging / to an ocean that can / ever continue silently in this / context / we have been given / a howling / that does not fit / in our throats / that we have tried to shove / down the throats of others / & when they spit it back / at us / at america / we call that aggression / we call that the first volley / & when they decide it is best to choke on our gifts / to appease the directors / of this terrible scene / we consider that a selfish act / that they would die without / our help / without allowing us to emerge / as somehow righteous / that because they bought wine / they drank the wine with love / with others that love / that they wanted to remember / that wine by framing / the bottle amidst the whole world / we took that simple reflection / of light through a glass we did not make / or get a chance to empty / as a sign that only fire / could bring us closer / to the god we expected
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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