Three Poems By Darren C. Demaree: "Nude Male With Echo #61", "Nude Male With Echo #62", "Nude Male With Echo #63"

Darren's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Grist, and the Colorado Review. 

He is the author of "As We Refer To Our Bodies" (2013, 8th House), "Temporary Champions" (2014, Main Street Rag), and "Not For Art Nor Prayer" (2015, 8th House).  He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. Darren is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

www.darrencdemaree.com

 

 

 

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #61

How quickly the war

in my body

needs another place

to answer simple questions

only.  The chemicals

are changing.  The weakness

is growing strong.

I still look brutal,

but the bands

inside of me are loosening.

I could wake up tomorrow

& be only water

escaping through thin sheets

that were once so tight

they could bounce

every person that loved me

into the distance.

Pixabay Art Photo

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #62

I tell many stories

of my milling

vibrancy.  I found

it.  That means

it was mine to lose

& that means

I lost it painfully.

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #63

You can push new colors

into new depths,

but those tattoos

will always overwhelm

the visitor

finding them

for the first time.

They will touch you

like art.

You will feel like an animal

the whole time.

Somewhere, in that

moment is the current

of energy that I want

to ride like lightning

into a swimming pool.

~Darren C. Demaree