Emily as Not Complicit, Not Investigated
The music you here right now
is a magic trick. If you look in the corner
of the room you’re in
you’ll see Emily taking
her shirt off
& laughing hysterically before
putting her hair up in a pony tail
& looking like the whole world
is just a bit of sex
& that is all you’ll ever remember
about Emily. That’s all
I can remember about Emily.
Darren Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently So Much More (Harbor Editions, 2004). His poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear, in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.
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