DARREN DEMAREE
SISTER FLUTE
Dressed better than an angel
& moving like hands that never touch
furniture, some women
are more important than the chapel
& those women can become the chapel
if they can shake loose the carcass
of Jesus fast enough. Those shards
of faith can glisten, can look alive
if you have a Sister Flute dancing.
A SWEET MISSISSIPPI ACCENT
Some smoothness
is simple enough
to be an actual wolf.
CITIFIED MUSIC
The sigh is a beat
in the dip
of the girl
who just got off work
& if her hair drags
into the blossom
you must swing her
even faster,
until the blur
takes the buildings
& makes them citizens
that dip as well,
like the music
can move the mountains
of active men
consumed,
but not consumed
by real smoke.
Darren Demaree's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review.
He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (2013, 8th House), Temporary Champions (2014, Main Street Rag), The Pony Governor (2015, After the Pause Press), and Not For Art Nor Prayer (2015, 8th House). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.
He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.