November 4, 2024 / barton smock
reflection on Darren C. Demaree’s ‘So Much More’ from Small Harbor Publishing (Nov 2024)
So Much More
Darren C. Demaree
Small Harbor Publishing (Nov 2024)
As it sings re-choired in the collection 'So Much More', Darren C. Demaree’s work is the starstuff of purpose and confrontation. Signs, tattoos, vacated crows. The un-reminded world. A shapeshifting violence that roots us to form. An offering of unrest carried in the body of a deerlike creature that touches nothing with its living while living in a believable church where sleep can be turned on and off by any two of three hooves. Demaree’s verse lets home take us home because there’s a second time to have nothing. No insect is a lost insect. We are not, and were not, long for heaven. There is no earth, but here we are. Our children lovely enough to be terrified.
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reflection by Barton Smock
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