{ Nude Male with Echo – poems – Darren C Demaree }
Nude Male with Echo
poems, Darren C Demaree
8th House Publishing, 2019
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When I am mirrored,
I touch the mirror; that is my problem. #55
These entries of retraceable paucity, as they exist in Darren C. Demaree’s Nude Male with Echo, are funny, critical, and curious and may add years to a past life that’s revised its timeline to longer crowd-surf the silent audience. Both a broken actuality and a puzzled baring, the work is a triumph of constant brevity and a sanctuary of purpose for any person who’s closed a circle while knowing their loneliness is up for renewal.
Could it be I am
an apple in the river
& I will never be
eaten? #181
Being naked is not something one can practice, not something one can perfect, but Demaree is a tenderly invisible journalist whose reportage records equally the shy swallowing in a museum…
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