local_library Nude Male with Echo #280

by Darren Demaree

Published in Issue No. 244 ~ September, 2017

 

I don’t see any ghosts

& that is a great disappointment

to me. I wanted

 

so badly to be wrong about that

& I wanted so badly

to be wrong about that.

 

My hope was that we all found

a way to stick around.

How terrible

 

that right now, more

than ever again, this is the most

I will ever be alive

 

& I wanted so badly

to be wrong about that as well.

I will need a coffee.

 

 

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Darren C. Demaree is living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. He is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013) and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2014), both are forthcoming from 8th House Publishing. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations.