Nude Male With Echo #53
It is less Greek
to say I feel the world
much more through my feet
than I ever have
from the sun above
& though my skin does pink
under the harsh blessing
of the old god,
I am home most of all
with bare feet headed nowhere
in particular
on a forgotten field.
Nude Male With Echo #54
When the bird finally shook
out of the weathering
in my chest, it flew away
to exercise the way my heart does,
without mystery
& without understanding
that there never was a mystery.
That bird flies to the sun
& assumes all of that heat
was born amidst his own wings.
Darren C. Demaree has appeared, or is scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.
It is less Greek
to say I feel the world
much more through my feet
than I ever have
from the sun above
& though my skin does pink
under the harsh blessing
of the old god,
I am home most of all
with bare feet headed nowhere
in particular
on a forgotten field.
Nude Male With Echo #54
When the bird finally shook
out of the weathering
in my chest, it flew away
to exercise the way my heart does,
without mystery
& without understanding
that there never was a mystery.
That bird flies to the sun
& assumes all of that heat
was born amidst his own wings.
Darren C. Demaree has appeared, or is scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology.