by Darren C. Demaree Mitch Gaiser EMILY AS WE FATTEN THE TETHER I am down in it trying to convince the innate matter of our marriage that my body can be stretched enough to be part of our marriage. There are so many moods in an absence. They all pull on me in the ways I do not find pleasing at all. EMILY AS SHE CHOOSES THE WAFFLE CONE I have just enough money to improve our small joys. EMILY AS THE REMNANTS OF A DARK AND ADDICTING BEAUTY Let me be stark. Emily’s not here. I

Avery Evans Bombing the Thinker by Darren C. Demaree, Backlash Press, 2018, $8.99 paperback Reviewed by Scott Neuffer A famous statue sits thinking with its legs blown off. And a poet who just wants a friend — who just wants to be whole — talks to the maimed statue, tells it dirty jokes, writes letters to its long-dead creator. This is the world Ohio poet and trampset contributor Darren C. Demaree creates in his profound and strangely touching poetry collection, Bombing the

by Darren C. Demaree Erik Mclean Emily as We Save the Fox There is the fox & the agitation of the fox. The call to remove the fox & kill the fox because it took a chicken or slashed to hang on to the cat’s tail & everyone loves that cat. So, we found the fox to save the fox, because fuck our neighbors & their chickens. They don’t get to carry death like a promise to a fox that was just being a fox. They don’t get to become wolves just to say they’re wolves. Emily as She Spent