EMILY AS A LAND UNDER SIEGE
DARREN C. DEMAREE
EMILY AS THE GREEK MYTHS FAIL
This is a two-thirds of an acre world
& they tell me the nexus of the gods
can cradle her ripening tan lines?
Y’all mother-
fuckers think Emily is going
to let you legislate
her body?
Goddamn. Such stupidity
masquerading as bravery
is going to get you stomped
on by a woman
who, in common measuring,
isn’t even five feet tall.
I love it when she makes this
world a righteous show.
I love when dumbass suits
make her prove there
are no common women.
I love it when we get
to budget
for spiked heels.
EMILY AS I TAKE MY MEDICINE ON THE FLOOR
I don’t fall so much anymore,
so if you see me on the floor,
it’s because Emily has willed it.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of fifteen poetry collections, most recently “Burning It Down”, (December 2020, 8th House Publishing). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
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