Emily as We Sharpen our Knives
Darren Demaree
Mind my mother
for a moment.
She worries
about the spellbound.
I eat the West
when Emily prepares
the West. Ask
the witches
in your life about her.
They’ll ribbon
your reality good
enough to believe me.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently “So Clearly Beautiful”, (November 2019, Adelaide Books). 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 Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.