Two Towns Over – poems – Darren C. Demaree
Two Towns Over
poems by Darren C. Demaree
Trio House Press, 2017
*Winner of the 2017 Louise Bogan Award
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Nobody tosses
out the drugs
of the dead.
That’s not how
this works. – {from} Monroe Mills, Ohio
Darren C. Demaree, in his book Two Towns Over, blesses a cursed Ohio with a populace whose touch is fighting an infection.
I know this Ohio…I know what it’s like to step over the shadow of one’s ghost…to lay low so as to give death nothing to leap from. To jump rope in hell. Demaree points to places made for map that have instead gone on to shoulder nowhere, from bunk bed to basement, looking to be housed.
Each entry, each poem, is an abruption, an angry rendering of those hypnotic recognitions that ask the present for the past and the past for the present that there may be a future…
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