by Darren Demaree
Yellow matters. Blue matters
more. I offer a flower she doesn’t want
& if that’s all I can do
then red will never matter.
Good lord, white is a wrinkled mess.
Emily wants to become the bed.
I want her dark hair back.
Rooms are a trap. Blue matters.
I don’t want love. I want Emily to be
in a field. I want her on her toes.
I want the green to tease her.
I want to eat every bit of her fear.
Darren Demaree’s 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 author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently ‘So Much More’ (November 2024, Harbor Editions). He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. Darren is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
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